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+## Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997  Kurt Hornik
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
+## 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.
+##
+## 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 GNU
+## General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the Free
+## Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
+## 02110-1301, USA.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {} normal_rnd (@var{m}, @var{v}, @var{r}, @var{c})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} normal_rnd (@var{m}, @var{v}, @var{sz})
+## Return an @var{r} by @var{c}  or @code{size (@var{sz})} matrix of
+## random samples from the normal distribution with parameters @var{m} 
+## and @var{v}.  Both @var{m} and @var{v} must be scalar or of size 
+## @var{r} by @var{c}.
+##
+## If @var{r} and @var{c} are omitted, the size of the result matrix is
+## the common size of @var{m} and @var{v}.
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
+## Description: Random deviates from the normal distribution
+
+function rnd = normal_rnd (varargin)
+
+ rnd =  normrnd (varargin{:});
+
+endfunction