homals is a sunos binary (i have lost the source code -- too bad, it was
nice c).

homals is used by saying "homals foo". it then expects two files
foo.par and foo.dat in the working directory. The foo.dat file
contains the data, one record per observation, free format.
The foo.par file has two lines:

nobs nvar ndim nits nboot nrape eps
ncats per variable 

Look at the examples in this directory. The programs then writes
files foo.cat, foo.obj, foo.disc with category quantification,
object scores, and discrimination measures. You can redirect the
output (iterations) to foo.out in the usual way. It also writes
foo.boot, which has bootstrap means and standard deviations for
the category quantifications, and foo.rape which has the random
permutation distribution of the eigenvalues.

This is fast and reliable, and for me by far the nicest way to run
somewhat larger examples from Unix. For small examples, and for 
teaching, homals.lsp is better, of course.

If I ever find the source again, I'll put it here as well.


--- Jan (02/03/94)