This distribution contains the Linux port of MATLAB, which is derived
from the NeXT port of the May 25, 1982 version of MATLAB which has been
running for several years PC's at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

   No warranty of any kind is provided for MATLAB by Jeff Burns 
 Romolo Manfredini (the releaser of this port) 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. (which come standard at least with
SLS releases of linux)

SUGGESTIONS:

   My aim ,concerning this porting of MATLAB, is to have a very nice
mathematical package under Linux, I suggest for plots, as this release
of MATLAB is unable to do any kind of plot, another very nice package
already available under Linux, namely GNUPLOT.
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 Linux operating system 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 (I have searched
througt all archie sites) please let me know, and I will try to get
it running on the Linux.  I am expecially interested in finding code
to handle plots over X11 and tektronics 40XX devices.

Suggestions can be routed to:

Romolo Manfredini
Pzza G. Garibaldi 9/6
I-54100 Massa (MS) Italy
E.Mail romolo@prix1.pr.infn.it

   If somebody want try to ask the publishers of MATLAB PRO, for a Linux
commercial Linux release of their product,(BTW version 4.0 is a great 
package under SUNs),
 
  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

P.S. we can also try to ask them to release to the public domain a newer
version of MATLAB.... (Will we dare too much ???? :))
