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1 This file last updated: Thu Jan 12 15:28:50 1995 |
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3 This directory contains the source for Octave, a high-level interactive |
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4 language for solving numerical problems. See the files README.octave |
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5 and Announce for more general information, and the file NEWS for a |
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6 list of recent changes. |
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8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ |
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9 PLEASE NOTE: We are only distributing gzipped files because we no |
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10 longer have room to distribute both compressed and gzipped files. |
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13 Binary distributions: |
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14 -------------------- |
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16 Binaries for several popular systems are distributed along with the |
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17 source, and are available in the following subdirectories of |
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18 /pub/octave/BINARIES: |
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20 subdirectory binary compiled on |
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22 alpha-dec-osf1.3 DEC Alpha/OSF1 |
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23 mips-dec-ultrix4.2 DECstation running Ultrix 4.2 |
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24 rs6000-ibm-aix3.2.5 RS/6000 running AIX 3.2.5 |
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25 sparc-sun-sunos4.1.2 Sun SPARC running SunOS 4.1.2 |
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27 Note: |
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28 |
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29 * Gnuplot binaries are *not* included. For the plotting commands to |
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30 work, you will need to install gnuplot on your system. See the |
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31 file INSTALL.octave in the top level directory of the distribution |
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32 for more details. |
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33 |
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34 * Octave has been compiled assuming that you have `less' installed. |
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35 You can use the environment variable PAGER to choose another pager. |
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36 |
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37 * We only have a limited amount of time available to devote to |
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38 making binaries, so binaries may not be immediately available |
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39 for some platforms. Please contact bug-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu if |
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40 you are interested in helping make binary distributions available. |
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41 |
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42 A note about patches: |
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43 -------------------- |
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45 If you are trying to compile Octave with g++ 2.7.x, you should get the |
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46 file README-GCC-2.7.0. |
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48 The patch in the file libg++-procbuf-bug fixes a serious problem in |
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49 libg++ that can cause Octave to crash when trying to execute commands |
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50 like `ls', or display output through the pager. |
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51 |
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52 The patch in the file libg++-complex-div-bug fixes a problem in libg++ |
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53 that can cause division of real numbers by complex numbers to overflow |
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54 unnecessarily. |
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55 |
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56 A note about .gz files: |
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57 ---------------------- |
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58 |
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59 Files with names ending in `.gz' have been compressed with `gzip'. |
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61 Unlike the compress utility, gzip is free of any known software |
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62 patents and tends to compress better anyway. Gzip can uncompress |
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63 `compress'-compressed files too, so you can install it as "uncompress" |
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64 and use it to handle both types of files. |
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66 The gzip program is available in the directory /pub/gnu in shar, tar, |
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67 or gzipped tar format (for those who already have a prior version of |
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68 gzip and want faster data transmission). It works on virtually every |
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69 unix system, MSDOS, OS/2, and VMS. |
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71 -- |
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72 John W. Eaton |
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73 jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu |
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74 University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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75 Department of Chemical Engineering |
