From help-octave-request at che dot utexas dot edu  Fri Mar 17 08:13:12 1995
Subject: Re: Status of DOS-OS/2 version of Octave? 
From: Guido Dietz <guido at aia dot RWTH-Aachen dot DE>
To: ta dot short at pti-us dot com (Tom Short)
Cc: help-octave at che dot utexas dot edu
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 09:10:22 +0100


You asked:

# Has anyone heard how the Dos-OS/2 port of Octave is coming along?

I remembered a (very old) mail from Dec 94 about some Spanish guys
working on that subject:

> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 94 20:45:07 GMT
> From: octavio at dtc dot uvigo dot es (Trabajos con Octave)
>
> We are working with Octave over MS-DOS.
> Now we have an executable file that is only has a part of the Octave functions.
> Our purpose is to change Octave internaly because we want
> some functions as a 'fft' to be executed in a DSP (but only if it is ventajous).
> 
> We need some information to do this:
> 
> What can be the best moment in Octave to put our functions?
>    (the functions to decide if the 'fft' runs normaly or
>     is better that the DSP do it. We need a point where the arguments
>     of the function be known, not other function)
> 
> What data types are used in Octave?
>     (we need know the integer and floating-point formats for the compatibility
>      with the DSP)
> 
> Thank you.
>     
>       Chus and Raul.

I don't know anything about their state of arts, but you could
ask them...

G.