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1 GNU Octave -- a high-level language for numerical computations. |
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3 Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 2002, 2007 John W. Eaton |
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5 Overview |
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8 GNU Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical |
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9 computations. It provides a convenient command line interface for |
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10 solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically. |
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12 GNU Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it |
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13 under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the |
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14 Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your |
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15 option) any later version. |
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17 GNU Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but |
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18 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
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19 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the file |
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20 COPYING for more details. |
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22 Availability |
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23 ------------ |
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25 The latest released version of Octave is always available via |
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26 anonymous ftp from ftp.octave.org in the directory /pub/octave. |
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27 Complete source and binaries for several popular systems are |
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28 available. Source distributions of Octave are also available from |
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29 ftp.gnu.org in the directory /pub/gnu, as well as many mirror |
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30 sites around the world. |
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32 Installation and Bugs |
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33 --------------------- |
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35 Octave requires approximately 925MB of disk storage to unpack and |
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36 compile from source (significantly less if you don't compile with |
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37 debugging symbols). Once installed, Octave requires approximately |
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38 350MB of disk space (again, considerably less if you don't build |
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39 shared libraries or the binaries and libraries do not include |
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42 To compile Octave, you will need a recent version of GNU Make. You |
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43 will also need a recent version of g++ or other ANSI C++ compiler. |
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44 You will also need a Fortran 77 compiler or f2c. If you use f2c, you |
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45 will need a script like fort77 that works like a normal Fortran |
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46 compiler by combining f2c with your C compiler in a single script. |
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48 YOU MUST HAVE GNU MAKE TO COMPILE OCTAVE. Octave's Makefiles use |
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49 features of GNU Make that are not present in other versions of make. |
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50 GNU Make is very portable and easy to install. |
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52 See the notes in the files INSTALL and INSTALL.OCTAVE for more |
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53 specific installation instructions, including directions for |
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54 installing Octave from a binary distribution. |
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56 The file BUGS contains a recommended procedure for reporting bugs, as |
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57 well as a list of known problems and possible fixes. |
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59 Documentation |
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60 ------------- |
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62 Octave's manual has been revised for version 3.0, but it is lagging a |
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63 bit behind the development of the software. In particular, there is |
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64 currently no complete documentation of the C++ class libraries. If |
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65 you notice ommissions or inconsistencies, please report them as bugs |
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66 to bug@octave.org. Specific suggestions for ways to improve Octave |
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67 and its documentation are always welcome. Reports with patches are |
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68 even more welcome. |
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70 Additional Information |
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71 ---------------------- |
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73 Up to date information about Octave is available on the WWW at the |
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74 URL http://www.octave.org, including archives of the help, bug, and |
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75 maintainers mailing lists. |
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78 John W. Eaton |
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79 jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu |
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80 University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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81 Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering |
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83 Last updated: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:26:42 EDT |
