MITHRIL-an integrated direct-methods computer program

A new direct-methods computer program, MITHRIL, is described. Written in a neutral subset of Fortran IV, it is built around a heavily modified MULTAN80 system. It incorporates many recent theoretical developments in direct methods including the use of quartet and quintet invariants, a new method for estimating triplets, YZARC and MAGEX, and random-phase tangent refinement. It can be run as a menu-driven interactive real-time package or in the more conventional batch mode. Several levels of user-program interaction are provided.