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+Welcome to the README for SLEPIAN_Hotel, a set of routines for the
+computation of spherical harmonics, Slepian functions, and transforms.
+This package is hosted by CSDMS at
+http://csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Model:SLEPIAN_Bravo
+
+
+Where do I start?
+
+he site https://github.com/Slepian/Slepian/wiki contains instructions
+and an installation program that sets up the folder structures and
+automatically downloads required data files. It also contains some
+demos.
+
+