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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 ???? :))