DAMTP Computing News

Matlab version 6.0 is now installed for the following platforms:

Dec Unix, Solaris-2, Irix 6, Linux/ix86, HP-UX

The command matlab6 will start up the new matlab. The older matlab version 5 is still available on those machines which had it before, and can also be called as matlab5 (as before). In due course version 6.0 will become the default matlab (and any older versions will be finally removed).

Matlab version 6.0 is NOT available on our Linux/Alpha machines (yet).

Please note that the default matlab startup now brings up a "desktop" and starts it's own JVM (yet another one!). To get the traditional matlab text interface run:

matlab6 -nosplash -nodesktop

or use -nojvm to save memory if you don't need it (imples -nodesktop). Run matlab6 -help for a list of command line switches.

Some machines may report problems with access to PTMX (pseudo-tty master) on startup, although this appears to cause no significant problems. Other machines may report that they have too old a kernel version in which case please let us know so we can update them.