verbal ok from Golub
lowess	released by AT&T
believed public domain and already widely distributed

From nls Mon Jan 22 10:39 EST 1990
sure. its dated but works...
>From ehg Mon Jan 22 09:59 EST 1990
I have a request for pfort (from Carroll Johnson at ORNL).  As I recall,
that is publicly released.  May I copy it from bowell to netlib?


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