This distribution contains the November 30, 1991 port of MATLAB for the NeXT. This port was completed by Jeff Burns from the May 25, 1982 version of MATLAB which has been running for several years on IBM PC's at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. No warranty of any kind is provided for MATLAB by Jeff Burns or anyone else! INSTALLATION: The suggested way of installing MATLAB is to put the file "matlab" in "/usr/local/bin" and the file "matlab.hlp" in "/usr/local/lib." It may also be desirable to edit the help file to include the location of the MATLAB User' Guide. Of course, the executable file "matlab" can reside almost anywhere on the file system, but the help file "matlab.hlp" must reside either in the current directory or in /usr/local/lib. If either of these places is not acceptable it will be necessary to change line 32 of sys.f and recompile. COMPILATION: The executable file "matlab" provided in this release was compiled using f2c from AT&T Bell Laboratories. The Makefile in the source directory assumes the use of f2c. SUGGESTIONS: My intention in undertaking this port of MATLAB to the NeXT has been to provide the features available in the May 25, 1982 version of MATLAB to NeXT users. No attempt has been made to extend the basic capabilities of this version of MATLAB. If anyone has any suggestions about how to enhance the way this version of MATLAB runs on NeXT computers please send them to me. Also, I suspect that someone else has ported MATLAB to a UNIX machine before. If anyone knows of a newer, or better, version of MATLAB that is still in the public domain please let me know, and I will try to get it running on the NeXT. I am especially interested in finding code that alleviates the inability of this version to use mixed case file names. Suggestions can be routed to: Jeff Burns 419 West Lincoln Road. Apt. D-6 Kokomo, IN 46902 As a final note, if you are a serious user of MATLAB why not write a letter to the publisher of MatLab Pro asking them to release a version for the NeXT. Their address is The MathWorks, Inc. Cochituate Place 24 Prine Park Way Natick, MA 01760 (508)653-1415 (508)653-2997 FAX info@mathworks.com
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Netfuture.ch.
