DAMTP Computing News

Our existing version of Matlab 4.0a (for Sun4 only) have now been upgraded to Matlab 4.2. The matlab command now refers to the latest version with matlab40 running the old one. I've now removed the last vestages of matlab 3.5j (which didn't run anyway as the licence had expired.) The matlab 4.0a and 4.2a are now sharing the same set of licences so be aware that if you start up both to check for differences you may cause us to run out of licences.

A new feature of 4.2a is that online documentation is available in html format, run the command "doc" within matlab to start up a Mosaic browser pointing at the table of contents. Outside matlab (and from machines were we arn't licenced to run it) you can read the documentation by running:

Mosaic file://localhost/opt/matlab-42/toolbox/matlab/doc/ReferenceTOC.html

This will be linked to fromn our WWW server in due course.