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- octave.2.0.5.README
- Mar 19, 1997
-
-
- Uploaded Mar 19, 1997, located at:
- http://www.peak.org/next/educational/
-
- octave-2.0.5.NI.bd.tar.gz:
- Containins octave-2.0.5, a free matlab clone for
- m68k-next-nextstep3
- i386-next-nextstep3
- platforms.
- octave-2.0.5.README: This file
- octave-2.0.5.NeXT: How to build octave for nextstep.
-
- Ample documentation is included in the tar-gzipped archive
- src/octave-2.0.5/doc.tar.gz.
-
- Building this wasn't too fun. First, I needed to build/install the latest
- versions of gcc (v2.7.2.2.f.2), g77 (v0.5.20), and libg++ (v2.7.2). OK,
- there was one fun part. I built (with much pain and sufferring) an i386
- based m68k cross-compiler. I actually built the m68k binary on an i386 box.
-
- If you want to get the most our of octave (plotting, in particular), you
- also install the app, GnuTerm, which which is a nice NeXT GUI frontend to
- gnuplot. Find it at:
- http://www.peak.org/next/apps/graphics/plotting/
-
-
- OVERVIEW
-
- Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical
- computations. It provides a convenient command line interface for solving
- linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for performing other
- numerical experiments. It may also be used as a batch-oriented language.
-
- Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
- under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
- Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any
- later version.
-
-
- INSTALLATION
-
- Unpacking the original archive reveals an Installer.app-style
- package.
-
- Simply double-click octave.pkg in the Workspace as root to
- install into /usr/local. Note: /usr/local is hardwired into
- the program, if you want it somewhere else, you'll need to recompile.
-
- If you're daring, you can unpack the archive manually using tar:
- cd /usr/local
- gnutar xZf /PathToArchive/octave.pkg/octave.tar.Z
-
-
- HISTORY
-
- This is my own internal history of progress.
- r5: ??
- Include hppa-next-nextstep3 port.
- r4: Mar 19, 1997
- Update to octave-2.0.5.
- Use standard octave directory scheme.
- r3: Jan 21, 1997 (Binary Release 3)
- Update to octave-2.0.1
- fix gnuplot/ls problem.
- r2: Jan 2, 1997 (Binary Release 2)
- Added documentation, FAT libraries
- Install as Installer.app package
- First public release, uploaded to ftp.next.peak.org, Jan 2, 1997
- Doesn't work with gnuplot (????)
- r1: Dec 20, 1996 (Binary Release 1)
- Added m68k binary.
- b2: Dec 18, 1996 (Binary Beta 2)
- Fixed help system bug (couldn't find info binary)
-
- CREDITS:
-
- Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu>
- Computer System Manager
- Department of Mathematics and Statistics
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/
-
- Octave source and other binaries:
- http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave
- ftp://ftp.che.wisc.edu/pub/octave
-
-