From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Fri Jan 31 10:45:17 2003
Subject: Re: Clawpack + Octave?
From: Miquel Cabanas <Miquel dot Cabanas at uab dot es>
To: "John B. Thoo" <jb2 at ms dot yuba dot cc dot ca dot us>
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 17:44:59 +0100

hi,

On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 08:17:35AM -0800, John B. Thoo wrote:
> Hi.  I'm sorry if this may be off topic.  I'm interested in using 
> Clawpack, a numerical solver for hyperbolic conservation laws.
> 
> <http://www.amath.washington.edu/~claw/>
> 
> Clawpack uses Matlab to plot.  Has anyone tried using Clawpack with 
> Octave instead?  Or does anyone have any inkling as to how easy or hard 
> it may be to make Clawpack work with Octave?  I'm almost a complete 
> newbie to using Octave (and Matlab).
> 

my feeling from a fast *really fast* look at the code is that
it's quite portable, and that it doesn't use matlab specific stuff
(graphical interfaces and the like). Give it a try and post whatever
problem you face, indeed, the package authors might appreciate
your testing efforts.

Miquel

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