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-Tested against octave-2.9.6.  No backward compatibility to 2.1.xx.  Use
-an older release of octave-forge instead.
-
-The usual build instructions apply: 
-
-  ./configure; make; make check; make install
-  
-Note that some tests will fail because of known bugs or missing
-features.  This should be indicated in the tests themselves.
-
-See <a href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/octave/octave-forge/RELEASE-NOTES?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain">RELEASE-NOTES</a> for a summary of all releases.
-
-See <a href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/octave/octave-forge/ChangeLog?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain">ChangeLog</a> for details of every change.
-
-2006-07-09 ===========================================================
-
-* purge functions moved to Octave and remove pre-2.9.x support.
-* comm: new functions pam/genqam/psk mod/demod 
-* combinatorics: new functions for integer partitions
-* geometry: fix qhull problems (finally!?)
-* signal: new function square to generate square waves
-* statistics: new function hmm viterbi/generate 
-* strings: remove regexp; api changed when moved to Octave
-* linear-algebra: new function for gsvd
-* general bug fixes and improvements (see ChangeLog for details)
-
-2006-03-16 ===========================================================
-
-* statistics/regress: new function
-* general bug fixes and improvements (see ChangeLog for details)
-
-2006-01-28 ===========================================================
-
-* audio/waveread: big-endian fix; 2-channel file fix
-* comm/galois: fix rank calculation for galois array
-* general/interp2: cubic interpolation
-* image/: return MxNx3 matrices of appropriate numeric class
-* io/textread: faster
-* io/dlmwrite: control precision and line separator; allow append
-* miscellaneous/mfilename: compatibility function
-* miscellaneous/listen: subnet patterns; loopback support
-* NaN/xcovf: missing data xcorr
-* octcdf/: support for netcdf files
-* optim/wpolyfit: return row vector; allow centering and scaling
-* plot/legend: fix error on first call
-* plot/print: add PDF option
-* signal/residued,residuez: partial fraction expansion of filters
-* signal/qp_kaiser: PPN filter bank coefficients
-* statistics/histfit: allow negative data
-* statistics/mvnpdf,mvnrnd: multivariate normal distribution
-* tsa/: improved speed, style and docs
-* tsa/amarma: adaptive mean ARMA modeling
-* tsa/y2res: add entropy estimation; add equidistant quantisation
-* tsa/mvfreqz: add PDCF
-* support for 2.9.4
-* support for 64-bit indexing
-* support for MinGW build
-* general bug fixes and improvements (see ChangeLog for details)
-
-2005-06-13 ===========================================================
-
-* textread now returns cell arrays
-* use new gnuplot interface for functions
-* fix rand bug on non-intel architectures
-* more econometrics functions
-* new functions: randg, cellfun, cell2mat, bwarea, imresize, savepath
-* bug fixes and improvements (see ChangeLog for details)
-
-2004-11-16 ===========================================================
-
-Extends support to Octave 2.1.62
-
-* initial econometrics toolbox
-* updated protein databank (extra/pdb) functions
-* new functions: wavread wavwrite hann strfind randp sprandn conv2nan
-* many bug fixes and improvements
-
-2004-09-07 ===========================================================
-
-Extends support to Octave 2.1.58
-
-* Base
-  - getfield/setfield now have a compatible interface; for the
-    old behaviour, use setfields/getfields.
-  - Fill full 53-bit mantissa with the random number generators; new 
-    sequences will be different from old sequences with the same seed.
-  - Removed restrictions on datenum/datevec and added calendar/eomday
-  - Added nthroot to return real root if available
-  - Added isa to test for class membership
-  - clf resets to line graphs
-  - Quiver plot is faster and no longer requires clf
-  - Added audio playback on OS X
-
-* Image processing
-  - Initial support for int* types.
-  - Added dilate erode bweuler bwmorph houghtf stretchlim
-    makelut applylut uintlut padarray roicolor poly2mask
-    qtdecomp qtgetblk qtsetblk bestblk blkproc nlfilter
-    cmunique cmpermute col2im im2col graycomatrix conndef isrgb
-
-* Optimization
-  - Replacement fzero using Brent's root finder
-
-* Communications:
-  - Support for concatenation operator [] on galois type
-  - Reduce restrictions on bchpoly syndtable
-
-* Signal processing:
-  - Added flattopwin
-  - fir1/fir2 have more flexible argument handling 
-
-* Sparse:
-  - Load/save support
-  - Support for concatenation operator []
-  - Added pcr for preconditioned conjugate gradient
-
-* Statistics:
-  - Added histfit pareto tabulate anderson_darling_cdf anderson_darling_test
-
-
-2004-07-07 ===========================================================
-
-Extends support to Octave 2.1.57.
-
-* The optimization functions have been replaced but the new interface 
-  is not yet settled.  See the files in the optim directory.
-
-* New package gsl: GNU Scientific library bindings.
-
-* New package fixed: Fixed point numeric operations.
-
-* New functions: polyconf wsolve fullfact pcg princomp filtic
-  rande azimuth deg2rad rad2deg distance zoom inputname fnval
-  fftconv2 mvaar
-
-* Bug fixes everywhere they are found.
-
-2004-02-11 ===================================================================
-
-Extends support forward to octave 2.1.53 for all oct-files.  Improved 
-build environment and better testing.  We still need more tests!  If 
-you need a function and don't see any test cases in it, add some and 
-send them our way.  See 'help test' for details.
-
-Changes
-  
-  - rand/randn: generates a different random number sequence from before.
-
-New functions
-
-  - anovan: analysis of variance
-  - append_save: add a variable to a save file
-  - assert: now supports structure arrays and cell arrays
-  - BFGSMin: alternative to bfgs minimizer
-  - conv2nan: 2-D convolution which ignores missing data
-  - convhull/convhulln: now allows direct control of qhull parameters
-  - csape: support n=3 case --- need to verify it is correct
-  - dxfwrite: output plot to DXF format (AutoCAD)
-  - fail: checks if code fails with a given error message
-  - galois: load/save support
-  - gpick: alternative to ginput
-  - imread: now supports 16-bit grayscale
-  - irsa_*: irregularly sampled data analysis functions
-  - map: apply a function across all elements of a cell array
-  - mex: initial support for structures
-  - pngread/pngwrite: direct access to libpng
-  - quadl: improved adaptive quadrature routine
-  - rand/randn: faster and now supports for nD arrays
-  - sort: fast sort based on python's timsort
-  - sprandn: random sparse matrix filled with normally distributed values
-  - str2double: convert string to double
-  - struct: now creates structure arrays
-  - toggle_grace_use: use grace plotting package rather than gnuplot
-  - xmlwrite: save data to xml format
-
-Plus the usual bug fixes and documentation updates.
-
-2003-06-02 for Octave 2.1.36 and up ==========================================
-
-* Extended support backward to octave 2.1.36 and forward to octave 2.1.49
-  for all oct-files.  Some scripts make use of features only available in
-  more recent versions of Octave.
-
-* Communications: 
-  - sqrt over Galois field
-  - BCH code, modulator
-  - bug fixes and documentation improvements
-
-* Image:
-  - added rotate_scale() 
-
-* Optimization:
-  - added Nick Higham's adsmax, mdsmax nmsmax for fmins
-  - lp() fix range error
-
-* Plotting:
-  - surf()/surfc() support gnuplot 3.8i shaded surfaces
-  - added peaks()
-  - legend() inside/ouside/boxon/boxoff/right/left
-
-* Signal Processing 
-  - added freqs, invfreqs, invfreqz
-  - return statespace and laplacian IIR filters (butter, cheby1, cheby2, ellip)
-  - fixed aryule() to return the correct filter
-
-* Statistics: 
-  - added normplot()
-  - scatter() optimization
-
-* Sparse:
-  - added concatenation functions spvcat() and sphcat()
-
-* Symbolic: 
-  - added poly2sym, sym2poly, numden, findsymbols, findsym, symlsolve, 
-    symfsolve, syminfo
-  - subs() accepts cell arrays
-
-* TSA/NaN:
-  - many bug fixes and documentation improvements
-
-* Miscellaneous:
-  - added cellstr()
-  - fieldnames() now returns cell array
-  - listen() bugfixes
-  - ellipke() supports m < 0
-  - deal() now supports [a,b] = deal(b,a)
-  - dlmread() converted to C++ for speed and more flexible input
-
-* administration: 
-  - target specific build instructions (MacOSX, windows, Irix)
-
-2003-02-22 for Octave 2.1.45 =================================================
-
-* Updates for octave 2.1.45
-
-* Parallel: Light weight parallel programming added but flagged NOINSTALL.
-
-* Communications: add galois field functions and others
-
-* Signal Processing: add convmtx and dftmtx
-
-* Geometry: add (poor) griddata/tsearch support --- please improve!!
-
-* VRML: new options 'z(grey|rb|col)' for vmesh() and
-  vrml_surf(). Fixes and improvements to many functions.
-
-* NaN: enhanced cov/covm, NaN arithmetic fixes 
-
-* TSA: bug fix (matlab 5.3 bug)
-
-* Sparse: add spstats and x.^a, more robust
-
-* Base functions: add fileparts, filesep, char, dos; improve dlmread
-
-* Function overloading: dispatch() lets you call tf rather than f if the
-  first argument to f is t.
-
-* Octave server: listen() sets up a socket to receive octave commands from
-  a particular host --- please improve!!
-
-Many fixes, compatibility improvements and better Windows support.
-
-Thanks, all!
-
-	
-2002-11-30 for Octave 2.1.40 =================================================
-
-New functions
-
-	* general/ndims: compatibility function
-        * image/imginfo: determines size of image using 'convert'
-	* image/colfilt: image block filtering function
-	* image/im{rotate,translate,shear}: image transformations
-	* miscellaneous/inline: generate a function from an expression
-        * miscellaneous/slurp_file: loads a file into a string
-        * miscellaneous/{rotv,rotparams}: parameterize 3D rotation matrices
-	* plot/contour.f: filled contours
-	* sparse/{sprand,spdiags,issparse}: sparse functions
-	* specfun/lambertw: Lambert's W function: x=w(x)*exp(w(x))
-	* specfun/betaln: log beta
-	* splines/pchip: Piecewise Cubic Hermitian Interpolating Polynomial
-	* statistics/{boxplot,scatter}: statistical plots
-	* symbolic/{cheb,chebwin}: Dolph-Chebyshev windows
-        * vrml/vmesh: 3D visualization of a surface
-        * vrml/*: represent and show 3D objects as VRML code (needs FreeWRL)
-
-Extended interfaces
-
-	* audio/au{load,save}: support floating point .wav formats
-	* image/colorgradient: allow instantaneous transitions (weight 0)
-	* optim/wpolyfit: option to fit through origin
-	* signal/{ellip,ellipord}: compatible interfac
-	* sparse/spy: accept dense matrices
-	* strings/mat2string: accept [] and complex
-	* symbolic/*: relational operators
-	* time/datestr: more format codes; handle vectors of dates
-
-Changed interfaces
-
-	* image/bwlabel: C++ version---may be different from m-file interface
-	* extra/ode: moved from v1.06 to v1.14
-	* optim/*: unified interface supporting options
-	* optim/wpolyfit: don't return yf
-	* optim/wpolyfit: return row vectors for compatibility with polyfit
-	* signal/nellip: replaced by ellip, ellipord
-	* OCTAVE_FORGE_VERSION is now an ordered integer: yyyymmdd
-	* FIXES/fsolve: removed because it hasn't been updated to 2.1.40
-
-
-extra/tsa
-
-	* significance test and confidence intervals for PACF
-	* added histogram functions for multicolumn data
-	* support for new releases of octave and matlab
-	* bug fixes
-
-extra/NaN
-
-	* added TRIMEAN, NORMPDF, NORMCDF and NORMRND
-	* extended NANTEST
-	* significance test and confidence intervals for CORRCOEF
-	* faster RANKS
-	* support for new releases of octave and matlab
-
-Internal changes
-
-	* extra/symband: eigenvector bug removed
-	* io/dlmread: returned matrix was transposed
-	* general/rat: display 1/0 for infinity
-	* plot/ginput: m-file version based on grab.cc
-	* plot/legend: give gnuplot time to respond to parameter request
-	* signal/{buttord,fir1}: bug fixes
-	* sparse/spy: prettier graph
-	* gcc 3.2 updates
-	* octave 2.1.40 updates
-	* remove functions and fixes that are now in octave
-
-Administration
-
-        * vrml/doc: LaTeX tutorial on 3D visualization tools 
-	* Octave for Windows FAQ updates
-	* INSTALL.WINDOWS installation notes
-	* support for static build under Windows
-
-2002-05-09 for Octave 2.1.31 =================================================
-
-This is a bug fix release.  Many thanks to the good folks at Debian for
-finding the portability problems.
-
-New functions
-
-	* miscellaneous/OCTAVE_FORGE_VERSION
-	* extra/tsa/durlev
-	* strings/base64encode
-	* signal/guasswin
-	* image/colfilt
-
-Changes
-
-	* audio/sound: uses ssh rather than rsh for remote audio
-	* testfun/assert: use tol>0 for relative error, tol<0 for absolute err
-	* optim/bfgs: new interface
-	* optim/minimize: ndiff, jac, hess and ihess options
-	* NaN/sumskipnan: additional outputs
-	* NaN/*: bug fixes
-
-Bug fixes
-
-	* signal/triang: for n=2, peak=1 at the virtual center of the window
-	* signal/gaussian: now returns a symmetric window
-	* now compiles on most Debian systems which support Octave.
-	* updated doc strings, tests
-
-Administration
-
-	* make check and make icheck added.  Only supports the compiled
-	  functions at the moment, but it is a start.
-