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4 <title> Octave -- a high-level language for numerical computations </title> |
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9 <h1>Octave</h1> |
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13 Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical |
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14 computations. It provides a convenient command line interface for |
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15 solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically. |
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18 <h3>Source and Binaries</h3> |
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19 <p> |
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20 Octave source and binaries are available by anonymous ftp from |
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21 <a href="ftp://www.che.wisc.edu/pub/octave">ftp://www.che.wisc.edu/pub/octave</a>. |
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24 <p> |
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25 Source and binaries for a port of Octave to OS/2 are available from |
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26 several sites, including: |
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28 <ul> |
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29 <li><a href="ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/pub/comp/os/os2/math">ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/pub/comp/os/os2/math</a> |
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30 <li><a href="wcarchive.cdrom.com/pub/os2/incoming">wcarchive.cdrom.com/pub/os2/incoming</a> |
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31 <li><a href="hobbes.nmsu.edu/incoming">hobbes.nmsu.edu/incoming</a> |
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32 </ul> |
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34 <h3>Documentation</h3> |
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35 <p> |
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36 To get started, there is a |
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37 <a href="readme.html">brief introduction</a>, and also the |
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38 <a href="preface.html">preface</a> to the manual. For more |
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39 detailed information, you can browse the |
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40 <a href="http://www.che.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/info2www?(octave)">complete |
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41 documentation</a>, which has been converted to HTML directly from the |
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42 installed info files with |
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43 <a href="http://www.che.wisc.edu/info2www.html">info2www</a>. |
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44 </p> |
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46 <p> |
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47 If you still have questions, there is always the |
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48 <a href="http://www.che.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/info2www?(octave-faq)Top"> |
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49 FAQ</a> (with answers). |
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50 </p> |
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52 <h3>Mailing Lists</h3> |
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53 <p> |
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54 There are two active mailing lists devoted to Octave. The |
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55 <em>help-octave</em> mailing list is available for questions related |
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56 to using, installing, and porting Octave that are not adequately |
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57 answered by the Octave manual or by the FAQ. The <em>bug-octave</em> |
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58 list is used for reporting bugs. An archive of postings to both lists |
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59 are available <a href="mailing-lists">here</a>. |
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60 </p> |
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61 |
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62 <h3>Contributed Functions</h3> |
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63 <p> |
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64 An archive of contributed functions for Octave is available from |
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65 <a href="http://www.tsc.uvigo.es/GTS/Octave/oct_arch.html">http://www.tsc.uvigo.es/GTS/Octave/oct_arch.html</a>. |
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66 </p> |
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68 <p> |
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69 <a href="http://www.che.wisc.edu/~jwe">John W. Eaton</a><br> |
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70 <a href="mailto:jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu"><i>jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu</i></a><br> |
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71 University of Wisconsin<br> |
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72 Department of Chemical Engineering<br> |
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73 Madison WI 53719 |
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