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update installer-files/README.html for Octave 4.4
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3 <title>GNU Octave</title>
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15 <h2>Welcome</h2>
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17 Thank you for installing GNU Octave!
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20 Octave 4.4 is a major release with many improvements in Matlab compatibility
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21 as well as significant cleanup of the core C++ code.
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24 A full list of changes can be found in the Release Notes from the News menu.
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26 <h2>BLAS Library Selection</h2>
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28 During the installation a default BLAS library was selected. The installer
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29 contains two BLAS implementations,
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30 the <a href="http://www.netlib.org/blas/">NetLib reference BLAS</a>
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31 and <a href="http://www.openblas.net/">OpenBLAS</a>.
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34 The choice of library may be changed after installation by copying
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36 folder of the Octave installation.
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38 <h2>Included Octave Forge Packages</h2>
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40 A number of Octave-Forge packages have been included with Octave, however they
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41 must be loaded in order to use them.
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44 <ul>
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45 <li>To list the available installed packages, use the
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46 <tt>pkg list</tt> command.</li>
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48 <tt>pkg load PACKAGENAME</tt> command.</li>
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53 <a href="https://octave.sourceforge.net/">Octave-Forge</a>.
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55 <h2>Issues</h2>
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