From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Mon Feb  5 16:56:57 2001
Subject: Basic questions regarding liboctave and dynamic function development
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Joshua Rigler <Jrigler at colorado dot edu>
Cc: Help-Octave <help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 16:56:49 -0600

On 30-Jan-2001, Joshua Rigler <Jrigler at colorado dot edu> wrote:

| 1) What exactly is liboctave (for what, and how is it used)? How do I
| interpret the documentation for liboctave found in liboctave.ps? (part
| of the Octave distribution docs)  

The liboctave library was intended to help implement Octave.  That it
is useful for other purposes outside the Octave interpreter is nice,
but it was never really designed to be a general purpose numerical
library.  However, some people have probably found it to be useful for
other projects anyway.

| 2) Is liboctave.ps supposed to describe all functions that should be
| available to me when I write .oct functions?

No.  That document is really out of date.  It is included in the
distribution with the hope that someone will come along and fix it up
and turn it into a useful document.

jwe



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