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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA7432 ; Fri, 22 Jan 93 11:44:39 EST Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:23593 comp.unix.bsd:10263 Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!warwick!uknet!cam-eng!ffy From: ffy@eng.cam.ac.uk (F.F. Yap) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd Subject: Anyone ported Octave (a Matlab clone) to Linux ? Message-ID: <1993Jan21.100219.12225@eng.cam.ac.uk> Date: 21 Jan 93 10:02:19 GMT References: <1993Jan20.092405.1272@ghost.dsi.unimi.it> Sender: ffy@uk.ac.cam.eng Organization: Cambridge University Engineering Department, England Lines: 24 Nntp-Posting-Host: tw207.eng.cam.ac.uk Has anyone successfully compiled OCTAVE to run on Linux ? If so, could you let me know how you did it (i.e. what changes need to be made) ? Or could you be kind enough to upload the binary somewhere ? Octave is a freely redistributable Matlab clone written by John W. Eaton. I saw his announcement last week in comp.soft-sys.matlab. Here's an abstract of what John wrote (in another posting) : As for the availability of other Matlab-like software, I know of two systems that are currently being developed. RLaB, written by Ian Searle, is a language similar to Matlab, but incompatible in many ways. Octave, which I am working on, more closely resembles Matlab. Both are freely redistributable under the terms of the Free Software Foundation's General Public License, and both are currently in alpha test, which means that there are probably some bugs left to find, and some features left to add. :-) I posted an announcement for Octave last week, but if you missed it, it's available via anonymos ftp from ftp.che.utexas.edu in the file /pub/octave/Announce. You can also find the sources for the last couple of versions of Octave in the same directory. Archie shows that RLaB is available from mizar.docs.uu.se in the directory /pub/alpha/RLaB.