From owner-help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Jan 16 14:38:37 1997
Subject: Re: Bessel functions? 
From: Jim Van Zandt <jrv at mbunix dot mitre dot org>
To: dc at cobi dot gsfc dot nasa dot gov (Dave Cottingham)
cc: help-octave at che dot utexas dot edu
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 15:38:23 -0500

In message <9701162010 dot AA02910 at cobi dot gsfc dot nasa dot gov>, Dave Cottingham writes:
>As I am in need of some Bessel functions, I picked up the latest
>contrib archive of special functions from the very handy site
>http://www.tsc.uvigo.es/GTS/Octave/oct_arch.html.  However, I cannot
>get besselj to work.  It relies on functions j0 and j1, which are not
>present in either octave 1.1.1 or 2.0, and which I can't find anywhere
>in the contrib archive.  Does anybody know how to get this to work?

They are in the C math library under "SunOS mbunix 4.1.3_U1 3 sun4m"
and Linux.  If your library doesn't have them, you might try to
install the GNU library, glibc.  Or switch to Linux :-)

                                 - Jim Van Zandt