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| 1 This file last updated: Thu Jan 12 15:28:50 1995 | |
| 2 | |
| 3 This directory contains the source for Octave, a high-level interactive | |
| 4 language for solving numerical problems. See the files README.octave | |
| 5 and Announce for more general information, and the file NEWS for a | |
| 6 list of recent changes. | |
| 7 | |
| 8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | |
| 9 PLEASE NOTE: We are only distributing gzipped files because we no | |
| 10 longer have room to distribute both compressed and gzipped files. | |
| 11 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | |
| 12 | |
| 13 Binary distributions: | |
| 14 -------------------- | |
| 15 | |
| 16 Binaries for several popular systems are distributed along with the | |
| 17 source, and are available in the following subdirectories of | |
| 18 /pub/octave/BINARIES: | |
| 19 | |
| 20 subdirectory binary compiled on | |
| 21 ----------------------------------------------------------------- | |
| 22 alpha-dec-osf1.3 DEC Alpha/OSF1 | |
| 23 mips-dec-ultrix4.2 DECstation running Ultrix 4.2 | |
| 24 rs6000-ibm-aix3.2.5 RS/6000 running AIX 3.2.5 | |
| 25 sparc-sun-sunos4.1.2 Sun SPARC running SunOS 4.1.2 | |
| 26 | |
| 27 Note: | |
| 28 | |
| 29 * Gnuplot binaries are *not* included. For the plotting commands to | |
| 30 work, you will need to install gnuplot on your system. See the | |
| 31 file INSTALL.octave in the top level directory of the distribution | |
| 32 for more details. | |
| 33 | |
| 34 * Octave has been compiled assuming that you have `less' installed. | |
| 35 You can use the environment variable PAGER to choose another pager. | |
| 36 | |
| 37 * We only have a limited amount of time available to devote to | |
| 38 making binaries, so binaries may not be immediately available | |
| 39 for some platforms. Please contact bug-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu if | |
| 40 you are interested in helping make binary distributions available. | |
| 41 | |
| 42 A note about patches: | |
| 43 -------------------- | |
| 44 | |
| 45 If you are trying to compile Octave with g++ 2.7.x, you should get the | |
| 46 file README-GCC-2.7.0. | |
| 47 | |
| 48 The patch in the file libg++-procbuf-bug fixes a serious problem in | |
| 49 libg++ that can cause Octave to crash when trying to execute commands | |
| 50 like `ls', or display output through the pager. | |
| 51 | |
| 52 The patch in the file libg++-complex-div-bug fixes a problem in libg++ | |
| 53 that can cause division of real numbers by complex numbers to overflow | |
| 54 unnecessarily. | |
| 55 | |
| 56 A note about .gz files: | |
| 57 ---------------------- | |
| 58 | |
| 59 Files with names ending in `.gz' have been compressed with `gzip'. | |
| 60 | |
| 61 Unlike the compress utility, gzip is free of any known software | |
| 62 patents and tends to compress better anyway. Gzip can uncompress | |
| 63 `compress'-compressed files too, so you can install it as "uncompress" | |
| 64 and use it to handle both types of files. | |
| 65 | |
| 66 The gzip program is available in the directory /pub/gnu in shar, tar, | |
| 67 or gzipped tar format (for those who already have a prior version of | |
| 68 gzip and want faster data transmission). It works on virtually every | |
| 69 unix system, MSDOS, OS/2, and VMS. | |
| 70 | |
| 71 -- | |
| 72 John W. Eaton | |
| 73 jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu | |
| 74 University of Wisconsin-Madison | |
| 75 Department of Chemical Engineering |