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- This distribution contains the Linux port of MATLAB, which is derived
- from the NeXT port of the May 25, 1982 version of MATLAB which has
- been running for several years on PC's at Rose-Hulman Institute of
- Technology.
-
- No warranty of any kind is provided for MATLAB by Jeff Burns
- Romolo Manfredini (the releaser of this port) or anyone else!
-
- INSTALLATION:
-
- The suggested way of installing MATLAB is to put the file "matlab"
- in "/usr/local/bin" and the file "matlab.hlp" in "/usr/local/lib." It
- may also be desirable to edit the help file to include the location of
- the MATLAB User' Guide. Of course, the executable file "matlab" can
- reside almost anywhere on the file system, but the help file
- "matlab.hlp" must reside either in the current directory or in
- /usr/local/lib. If either of these places is not acceptable it will
- be necessary to change line 32 of sys.f and recompile.
-
- COMPILATION:
-
- The executable file "matlab" provided in this release was compiled
- using f2c from AT&T Bell Laboratories. The Makefile in the source
- directory assumes the use of f2c. (which come standard at least with
- SLS releases of linux)
-
- SUGGESTIONS:
-
- My aim, concerning this porting of MATLAB, is to have a very nice
- mathematical package under Linux. I suggest for plots, as this
- release of MATLAB is unable to do any kind of plot, another very nice
- package already available under Linux, namely GNUPLOT. No attempt has
- been made to extend the basic capabilities of this version of MATLAB.
- If anyone has any suggestions about how to enhance the way this
- version of MATLAB runs on Linux operating system please send them to
- me. Also, I suspect that someone else has ported MATLAB to a UNIX
- machine before. If anyone knows of a newer, or better, version of
- MATLAB that is still in the public domain (I have searched through all
- archie sites) please let me know, and I will try to get it running on
- the Linux. I am especially interested in finding code to handle plots
- over X11 and tektronics 40XX devices.
-
- Suggestions can be routed to:
-
- Romolo Manfredini Pzza G. Garibaldi 9/6 I-54100 Massa (MS) Italy
- E.Mail romolo@prix1.pr.infn.it
-
- If somebody wants to try to ask the publishers of MATLAB PRO, for a
- Linux commercial Linux release of their product,(BTW version 4.0 is a
- great package under SUNs),
-
- Their address is
-
- The MathWorks, Inc. Cochituate Place 24 Prine Park Way Natick, MA
- 01760 (508)653-1415 (508)653-2997 FAX info@mathworks.com
-
- P.S. we can also try to ask them to release to the public domain a
- newer version of MATLAB.... (Will we dare too much ???? :))
-