Re: xtank-1.3f modification

  I don't know if anyone's reading this newsgroup at all, but I'm 
going to pretend to have a readership and post occasional progress 
reports.

  I've been through the xtank-1.3f source code, and aside from being 
ancient (simulating threads, for instance, with setjmp/longjmp .. 
wow, I haven't seen that since SunOS was considered hot stuff), it's 
pretty clean and easy to understand.

  Aside from a little selective lobotomizing of the network-checking 
code, though, I'm leaving the sources of xtank itself alone, for now, 
while I develop some of the functionality I want as separate library 
code.  As it gets done, I'll see to adding it to xtank.  Right now I 
am concentrating on armor modelling and simulation, using "A Unified 
Model for Long-Rod Penetration in Multiple Metallic Plates" (Chocron, 
Anderson Jr, Walker, Ravid) as my guide.  I will expand the model to 
include containment/ceramic/backplate and reactive sandwich composite 
components, as best I can.

  At that point, I intend to stop armor/penetration modelling for a 
while and move on to the next area of enhancement (which I have not 
decided on).

  -- TTK