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- From: little@mathworks.com (John Little)
- Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.matlab
- Subject: Re: On-line help
- Message-ID: <C1JG7A.KGG@MathWorks.COM>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 00:33:09 GMT
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- In article <C1IH3v.Ax1@sunlab1.bath.ac.uk> Mark Hagger,
- mapmh@sunlab1.bath.ac.uk writes:
-
- >Does anyone else think that it would be _very_ useful if the inbuilt
- >matlab functions had some kind of topic help option, something like
- >the apropos (or man -k) option in UNIX. On a general basis I run
- >matlab without having a manual in front of me (the university only has
- >3 copies so they are very restricted) so when I have no idea what the
- >command is but have a good idea what I want it to (and that the
- >command exists) its very annoying as I have to wander around the dept
- >to find the manual.
- >
- >Of course knowing my luck this is probably a version 4.0 option.
-
-
- How right you are. Here's what I get by using the new "lookfor" command
- with the string "fourier":
-
- >> lookfor fourier
-
- FFT Discrete Fourier transform.
- FFT2 Two-dimensional Fast Fourier Transform.
- IFFT Inverse discrete Fourier transform.
- IFFT2 Two-dimensional inverse discrete Fourier transform.
- FOURIER Graphics demo of Fourier series expansion.
- DFTMTX Discrete Fourier transform matrix.
-
- >>
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- John Little
-