jeff@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu (Jeffrey C. Kantor) (10/12/88)
I received enough mail replys to want to encourage that acquiring the
fortran sources for MATLAB may be of interest people other than myself,
hence this posting.
Someone (at colo state, sorry but I've lost your name) said that the
sources are ftp'able from unmvax.unm.edu. (129.24.12.128). I tried
this, but uncompress choked on the file MATLAB.tar.Z only about 25Kbytes
into the job (out of 440Kbytes). Examing the first bit of what came out
looks a bit discouraging in that I saw some VAX assembler, stuff that appears
to be difficult to port. But maybe there are some conditional things for
different machines.
Since I'm not an uncompress guru, is there something I should be aware of
that might explain what's going wrong?
Secondly, is there someone who knows more about this particular piece
of code. Esp. as to whether it is really public domain, and its general
pedigree?
As I said in an earlier posting, what I'm looking for is a fortran MATLAB
code to use as a platform for teaching an undergraduate course in numerical
analysis and fortran programming. I thought having the sources to MATLAB
might provide an excellent framework for a number of class exercises and
projects.
--
Jeff Kantor
US Mail: Dept. of Chemical Engineering
internet: jeff@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu University of Notre Dame
uucp: iuvax!ndmath!ndcheg!jeff Notre Dame, IN 46556 USAvu0112@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Cliff Joslyn) (10/13/88)
I don't want the source, but rather the executable for DOS. Is that available from the same site? -- O----------------------------------------------------------------------> | Cliff Joslyn, Cybernetician at Large | Systems Science, SUNY Binghamton, vu0112@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu V All the world is biscuit shaped. . .
srt@romeo.cs.duke.edu (Stephen R. Tate) (10/13/88)
In article <628@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu> jeff@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu (Jeffrey C. Kantor) writes: >Someone (at colo state, sorry but I've lost your name) said that the >sources are ftp'able from unmvax.unm.edu. (129.24.12.128). I tried >this, but uncompress choked on the file MATLAB.tar.Z only about 25Kbytes >into the job (out of 440Kbytes). This is just a guess, but did you remember to set the ftp transfer type to binary or tenex before getting the file? A compressed file uses the full 8 bits of every byte (on a byte oriented machine), so the default ASCII transfer doesn't work. Try re-doing the ftp and remember to use the command "type binary" before doing the transfer. (If to/from a non-byte oriented machine like a DEC-20, you will need "type tenex"). Hope this helps. Steve Tate ARPA: srt@cs.duke.edu CSNET: srt@duke UUCP: ..!{ihnp4,decvax}!duke!srt
cvink@caen.engin.umich.edu (charles e vink) (10/18/88)
In article <628@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu>, jeff@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu (Jeffrey C. Kantor) writes: > > Someone (at colo state, sorry but I've lost your name) said that the > sources are ftp'able from unmvax.unm.edu. (129.24.12.128). I tried > this, but uncompress choked on the file MATLAB.tar.Z only about 25Kbytes > into the job (out of 440Kbytes). Examing the first bit of what came out > looks a bit discouraging in that I saw some VAX assembler, stuff that appears > to be difficult to port. But maybe there are some conditional things for > different machines. > I was able to ftp > uncompress > untar the file successfully. Be aware that compressed files must be ftp'd in binary mode or you will get 440K of garbage! A quick glance at the distribution files suggests that this program is not system dependent (i.e. there are files for CDC, IBM CMS, DEC 10's and 20's, Prime 400, and IBM TSO machines as well as the files for UNIX). > Since I'm not an uncompress guru, is there something I should be aware of > that might explain what's going wrong? > I simply put the MATLAB.tar.Z file in a directory, then used "uncompress MATLAB.tar", then "tar xf MATLAB.tar". Everything seemed to unpak OK. > Secondly, is there someone who knows more about this particular piece > of code. Esp. as to whether it is really public domain, and its general > pedigree? > I looked in the README file, the install file, several source files, and several miscellaneous files and found no copyright notices. It does bother me that there is now a commercial program with the same name and appears to use roughly the same syntax (I haven't read the users guide yet for this version). The only thing that makes me feel a little better is that this version is dated November 1983 and has the name and phone number of what appears to be the author: Cleve Moler Department of Computer Science University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131 (505)277-3112 or (505)268-8631 The best bet would be to get in touch with him to verify that this version is indeed in the public domain. Chuck Vink cvink@caen.engin.umich.edu