From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Mon Feb  1 13:13:04 1999
Subject: Bessel functions with complex argument
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Charles JOUBERT <joubert at crit dot univ-montp2 dot fr>
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 13:13:04 -0600 (CST)

On  1-Feb-1999, Charles JOUBERT <joubert at crit dot univ-montp2 dot fr> wrote:

| 
| 	I want to use bessel functions with complex arguments. I have not seen
| anything alike in Octave. Is someone working on this ?

| 	Is it possible to use the functions provided by the AMOS library
| (fortran routines) with an appropriate wrapper ?

For 2.0.14, I modified Octave's bessel functions to use the Amos
library, so in the next release they will handle complex arguments,
negative orders, etc.  You can get a copy of the latest test release
that contains the new code from ftp.che.wisc.edu in the directory
pub/octave/test-releases.

jwe