You see several files, a short explanation of their purpose:

the files with ending  .doc are the most actual, which explain the
use of the routines of SYMMETRICA. For example the file
	nu.doc   explain the ues of the routines in nu.c
some other doc files are:
	install.doc   description of the installation !!!!

the files make.unix and make.dos are the verison of the makefile
for unix and for dos, with MS-C compiler.

the files with name 
		ex??.c
contains example as mentioned in the USER Guide.

the files with ending .tex are the source for a first version of a
Latex - Userguide, to get it use the latex command with the file
		USER.tex

the remaining files are the source code for the SYMMETRICA routines.
A short explanation of their content
	nu.c		numerical routines
	perm.c		permutations
	part.c		partitions
	list.c		lists
	sr.c		schur functions
	sb.c		schubert polynomials
	sc.c		characters of symmetric group
	nc.c		new characters / not yet fully documented
	rest.c		routines not fitting elsewhere
	bi.c		binary tree
	vc.c		vector
	nb.c		square radicals (numbers)
	lo.c		longinteger
	
