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1 This file last updated: Fri Apr 12 20:21:16 2002 |
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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 Binary distributions: |
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11 Octave binaries are no longer distributed from this site. |
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13 Packaged versions of Octave for various GNU/Linux systems are available |
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14 with the major GNU/Linux distributions (Debian, Red Hat, SuSE, etc.). |
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16 Tom Weichmann <tomcw@localnet.com> and Julian A. de Marchi |
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17 <julian@matlinks.net> have created a package that makes |
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18 Octave easier to install on Windows systems. You can find a pointer |
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19 to it on the download page of the Octave web site, www.octave.org. |
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21 A note about .gz files: |
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24 Files with names ending in `.gz' have been compressed with `gzip'. |
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26 Unlike the compress utility, gzip is free of any known software |
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27 patents and tends to compress better anyway. Gzip can uncompress |
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28 `compress'-compressed files too, so you can install it as "uncompress" |
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29 and use it to handle both types of files. |
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31 The gzip program is available in the directory /pub/gnu in shar, tar, |
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32 or gzipped tar format (for those who already have a prior version of |
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33 gzip and want faster data transmission). It works on virtually every |
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34 unix system, MSDOS, OS/2, and VMS. |
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36 -- |
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37 John W. Eaton |
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38 jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu |
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39 University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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40 Department of Chemical Engineering |
