Mercurial > octave

changeset 2339:8d7454ead97e

Find changesets by keywords (author, files, the commit message), revision number or hash, or revset expression.
[project @ 1996-07-24 07:18:22 by jwe]
author jwe
date Wed, 24 Jul 1996 07:19:06 +0000
parents 18953de8c308
children 599f8f054840
files WWW/index.html WWW/mailing-lists/index.html WWW/preface.html WWW/readme.html
diffstat 4 files changed, 418 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
line wrap: on
line diff
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/WWW/index.html	Wed Jul 24 07:19:06 1996 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+<!doctype html public "-//IETF//DTD HTML Strict//EN">
+<html>
+<head>
+<title> Octave -- a high-level language for numerical computations </title>
+</head>
+
+<body>
+<hr>
+<h1>Octave</h1>
+<hr>
+
+<p>
+Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical
+computations.  It provides a convenient command line interface for
+solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically.
+</p>
+
+<h3>Source and Binaries</h3>
+<p>
+Octave source and binaries are available by anonymous ftp from
+<a href="ftp://www.che.wisc.edu/pub/octave">ftp://www.che.wisc.edu/pub/octave</a>.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Source and binaries for a port of Octave to OS/2 are available from
+several sites, including:
+</p>
+<ul>
+  <li><a href="ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/pub/comp/os/os2/math">ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/pub/comp/os/os2/math</a>
+  <li><a href="wcarchive.cdrom.com/pub/os2/incoming">wcarchive.cdrom.com/pub/os2/incoming</a>
+  <li><a href="hobbes.nmsu.edu/incoming">hobbes.nmsu.edu/incoming</a>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>Documentation</h3>
+<p>
+To get started, there is a
+<a href="readme.html">brief introduction</a>, and also the 
+<a href="preface.html">preface</a> to the manual.  For more
+detailed information, you can browse the
+<a href="http://www.che.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/info2www?(octave)">complete
+documentation</a>, which has been converted to HTML directly from the
+installed info files with
+<a href="http://www.che.wisc.edu/info2www.html">info2www</a>.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+If you still have questions, there is always the
+<a href="http://www.che.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/info2www?(octave-faq)Top">
+FAQ</a> (with answers).
+</p>
+
+<h3>Mailing Lists</h3>
+<p>
+There are two active mailing lists devoted to Octave.  The
+<em>help-octave</em> mailing list is available for questions related
+to using, installing, and porting Octave that are not adequately
+answered by the Octave manual or by the FAQ.  The <em>bug-octave</em>
+list is used for reporting bugs.  An archive of postings to both lists
+are available <a href="mailing-lists">here</a>.
+</p>
+
+<h3>Contributed Functions</h3>
+<p>
+An archive of contributed functions for Octave is available from
+<a href="http://www.tsc.uvigo.es/GTS/Octave/oct_arch.html">http://www.tsc.uvigo.es/GTS/Octave/oct_arch.html</a>.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<a href="http://www.che.wisc.edu/~jwe">John W. Eaton</a><br>
+<a href="mailto:jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu"><i>jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu</i></a><br>
+University of Wisconsin<br>
+Department of Chemical Engineering<br>
+Madison WI 53719
+</body>
+</html>
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/WWW/mailing-lists/index.html	Wed Jul 24 07:19:06 1996 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+<title>Octave Mailing List Archives</title>
+
+<h2>
+Octave Mailing List Archives
+</h2>
+<hr>
+
+<h3>
+help-octave -- General discussion about using and installing Octave.
+</h3>
+<p>
+
+<ul>
+<li><a href="help-octave/1996">1996</a>
+<li><a href="help-octave/1995">1995</a>
+<li><a href="help-octave/1994">1994</a>
+<li><a href="help-octave/1993">1993</a>
+<li><a href="help-octave/1992">1992</a>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>
+bug-octave -- Bug reports.  Fixes are also sometimes posted to this list.
+</h3>
+<p>
+
+<ul>
+<li><a href="bug-octave/1996">1996</a>
+<li><a href="bug-octave/1995">1995</a>
+<li><a href="bug-octave/1994">1994</a>
+<li><a href="bug-octave/1993">1993</a>
+<li><a href="bug-octave/1992">1992</a>
+</ul>
+<p>
+
+<h3>
+octave-sources -- Enhancements contributed by Octave users.
+</h3>
+<p>
+
+<ul>
+<li><a href="octave-sources/1996">1996</a>
+</ul>
+<p>
+
+If you would like to join the discussion and receive all messages sent
+to these mailing lists, please send a short note to
+help-octave-<b>request</b>@bevo.che.wisc.edu (to join help-octave) or
+bug-octave-<b>request</b>@bevo.che.wisc.edu (to join bug-octave), or
+octave-sources-<b>request</b>@bevo.che.wisc.edu (to join octave-sources).
+<p>
+
+<b>
+Please do NOT send subscription requests directly to the lists
+themselves.
+</b>
+<p>
+
+Back to the
+<a href="http://bevo.che.wisc.edu/octave.html>Octave home page</a>.
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/WWW/preface.html	Wed Jul 24 07:19:06 1996 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+<!doctype html public "-//IETF//DTD HTML Strict//EN">
+<html>
+<head>
+<title> Preface to the Octave Manual </title>
+</head>
+
+<body>
+<h2>Preface</h2>
+<p>
+Octave was originally intended to be companion software for an
+undergraduate-level textbook on chemical reactor design being written by
+James B. Rawlings of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and John
+G. Ekerdt of the University of Texas.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Clearly, Octave is now much more than just another `courseware' package
+with limited utility beyond the classroom.  Although our initial goals
+were somewhat vague, we knew that we wanted to create something that
+would enable students to solve realistic problems, and that they could
+use for many things other than chemical reactor design problems.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+There are those who would say that we should be teaching the students
+Fortran instead, because that is the computer language of engineering,
+but every time we have tried that, the students have spent far too much
+time trying to figure out why their Fortran code crashes and not enough
+time learning about chemical engineering.  With Octave, most students
+pick up the basics quickly, and are using it confidently in just a few
+hours.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Although it was originally intended to be used to teach reactor design,
+it has been used in several other undergraduate and graduate
+courses in the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of
+Texas, and the math department at the University of Texas has been using
+it for teaching differential equations and linear algebra as well.  If
+you find it useful, please let us know.  We are always interested to
+find out how Octave is being used in other places.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Virtually everyone thinks that the name Octave has something to do with
+music, but it is actually the name of a former
+<a href="http://www.engr.orst.edu/~reed/CSTR/profs.html">professor</a>
+of mine who wrote a famous textbook on chemical reaction engineering,
+and who was also well known for his ability to do quick `back of the
+envelope' calculations.  We hope that this software will make it
+possible for many people to do more ambitious computations just as
+easily.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Everyone is encouraged to share this software with others under the
+terms of the
+<a href="cgi-bin/info2www?(octave)Copying">GNU General Public License</a>
+as described at the beginning of this manual.  You are also encouraged
+to help make Octave more useful by writing and contributing additional
+functions for it, and by reporting any problems you may have.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Many people have already contributed to Octave's development.  In
+addition to John W. Eaton, the following people have helped write parts
+of Octave or helped out in various other ways.
+</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li><em>Karl Berry</em> (karl@cs.umb.edu) wrote the <tt>kpathsea</tt> library
+that allows Octave to recursively search directory paths for function
+and script files.</li>
+
+<li><em>Georg Beyerle</em> (gbeyerle@awi-potsdam.de) contributed code to
+save values in Matlab's <tt>.mat</tt>-file format, and has provided
+many useful bug reports and suggestions.</li>
+
+<li><em>John Campbell</em> (jcc@bevo.che.wisc.edu) wrote most of the file
+and C-style input and output functions.</li>
+
+<li><em>Brian Fox</em> (bfox@gnu.ai.mit.edu) wrote the <tt>readline</tt>
+library used for command history editing, and the portion of this
+manual that documents it.</li>
+
+<li><em>A. Scottedward Hodel</em> (scotte@eng.auburn.edu) contributed a
+number of functions including <tt>expm</tt>, <tt>qzval</tt>,
+<tt>qzhess</tt>, <tt>syl</tt>, <tt>lyap</tt>, and <tt>balance</tt>.</li>
+
+<li><em>Kurt Hornik</em> (Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at) provided the
+<tt>corrcoef</tt>, <tt>cov</tt>, <tt>kurtosis</tt>, <tt>pinv</tt>, and
+<tt>skewness</tt> functions.</li>
+
+<li><em>Phil Johnson</em> (johnsonp@nicco.sscnet.ucla.edu) has helped to
+make Linux releases available.</li>
+
+<li><em>Friedrich Leisch</em> (leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at) provided the
+<tt>mahalanobis</tt> function.</li>
+
+<li><em>Ken Neighbors</em> (wkn@leland.stanford.edu) has provided many
+useful bug reports and comments on Matlab compatibility.</li>
+
+<li><em>Rick Niles</em> (niles@axp745.gsfc.nasa.gov) rewrote Octave's
+plotting functions to add line styles and the ability to specify an
+unlimited number of lines in a single call.  He also continues to
+track down odd incompatibilities and bugs.</li>
+
+<li><em>Mark Odegard</em> (meo@sugarland.unocal.com) provided the initial
+implementation of <tt>fread</tt>, <tt>fwrite</tt>, <tt>feof</tt>, and
+<tt>ferror</tt>.</li>
+
+<li><em>Tony Richardson</em> (tony@guts.biomed.uakron.edu) wrote Octave's
+image processing functions as well as most of the original polynomial
+functions.</li>
+
+<li><em>R. Bruce Tenison</em> (Bruce.Tenison@eng.auburn.edu) wrote the
+<tt>hess</tt> and <tt>schur</tt> functions.</li>
+
+<li><em>Teresa Twaroch</em> (twaroch@ci.tuwien.ac.at) provided the functions
+<tt>gls</tt> and <tt>ols</tt>.</li>
+
+<li><em>Fook Fah Yap</em> (ffy@eng.cam.ac.uk) provided the <tt>fft</tt> and
+<tt>ifft</tt> functions and valuable bug reports for early versions.
+</ul>
+
+<p>
+Special thanks to the following people and organizations for
+supporting the development of Octave:
+</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li><em>Digital Equipment Corporation</em>, for an equipment grant as part
+of their External Research Program.</li>
+
+<li><em>Sun Microsystems</em>, Inc., for an Academic Equipment grant.</li>
+
+<li><em>International Business Machines, Inc.</em>, for providing equipment
+as part of a grant to the University of Texas College of Engineering.</li>
+
+<li><em>Texaco Chemical Company</em>, for providing funding to continue the
+development of this software.</li>
+
+<li><em>The University of Texas College of Engineering</em>, for providing a
+Challenge for Excellence Research Supplement, and for providing an
+Academic Development Funds grant.</li>
+
+<li><em>The State of Texas</em>, for providing funding through the Texas
+Advanced Technology Program under Grant No. 003658-078.</li>
+
+<li><em>Noel Bell</em>, Senior Engineer, Texaco Chemical Company, Austin
+Texas.</li>
+
+<li><em>James B. Rawlings</em>, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
+Department of Chemical Engineering.</li>
+
+<li><em>Richard Stallman</em>, for writing GNU.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>
+This project would not have been possible without the GNU software used
+in and used to produce Octave.
+</p>
+</body>
+</html>
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/WWW/readme.html	Wed Jul 24 07:19:06 1996 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,120 @@
+<!doctype html public "-//IETF//DTD HTML Strict//EN">
+<html>
+<head>
+<title> Octave -- a high-level language for numerical computations </title>
+</head>
+
+<h3>Copyright (C) 1996 John W. Eaton</h3>
+
+<h4>Overview</h4>
+<p>
+Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical
+computations.  It provides a convenient command line interface for
+solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
+Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any
+later version.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the file COPYING for more
+details.
+</p>
+
+<h4>Availability</h4>
+<p>
+The latest released version of Octave is always available via
+anonymous ftp from <a href="ftp://ftp.che.wisc.edu/pub/octave">
+ftp.che.wisc.edu</a> in the directory /pub/octave.
+Complete source and binaries for several popular systems are
+available.
+</p>
+
+<h4>Installation and Bugs</h4>
+<p>
+Octave requires approximately 25MB of disk storage to unpack and
+install (significantly 	less if you don't compile with debugging
+symbols).  In order to build Octave, you will need a current version
+of g++, libg++, and GNU make.  Octave is known to compile on the
+following systems:
+</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>SPARCstation 2 SunOS 4.1.2</li>
+<li>IBM RS/6000 AIX 3.2.x</li>
+<li>DECstation 5000/240 Ultrix 4.2a</li>
+<li>i486 Linux</li>
+<li>i486 NetBSD (without IEEE floating point support)</li>
+<li>HP 9000/7xx HP-UX 9.x</li>
+<li>SGI Irix 4.04</li>
+<li>NeXT NeXTStep ?</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>
+See the notes in the files INSTALL and INSTALL.OCTAVE for more
+specific installation instructions, including directions for
+installing Octave from a binary distribution.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The file BUGS contains a recommended procedure for reporting bugs, as
+well as a list of known problems.
+</p>
+
+<h4>Binary Distributions</h4>
+<p>
+Binary copies of Octave are now distributed for several popular Unix
+systems.  To save disk space, the complete source code for Octave is
+no longer included with the binary distribution, but should be
+available in the same place as the binaries.  If not, please contact
+bug-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The file INSTALL.OCTAVE contains specific installation instructions,
+for installing Octave from a binary distribution.
+</p>
+
+<h4>Implemenation</h4>
+<p>
+Octave is being developed with the Free Software Foundation's make,
+bison (a replacement for YACC), flex (a replacement for lex), gcc/g++,
+and libg++ on a SPARCstation II and a DECstation 5000/240.  It should
+be possible to install it on any machine that runs GCC/G++.  It may
+also be possible to install it using other implementations of these
+tools, but it will most certainly require much more work.  Do yourself
+a favor and get the GNU development tools, either via anonymous ftp
+from prep.ai.mit.edu or by writing the Free Software Foundation, 675
+Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The underlying numerical solvers are currently standard Fortran ones
+like Lapack, Linpack, Odepack, the Blas, etc., packaged in a library
+of C++ classes (see the files in the libcruft and liboctave
+subdirectories).  If possible, the Fortran subroutines are compiled
+with the system's Fortran compiler, and called directly from the C++
+functions.  If that's not possible, they are translated with f2c and
+compiled with a C compiler.  Better performance is usually achieved if
+the intermediate translation to C is avoided.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The library of C++ classes may also be useful by itself.
+</p>
+
+<h4>Author</h4>
+<p>
+<a href="http://www.che.wisc.edu/~jwe">John W. Eaton</a><br>
+<a href="mailto:jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu"><i>jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu</i></a><br>
+University of Wisconsin<br>
+Department of Chemical Engineering<br>
+Madison WI 53719
+</body>
+</html>