From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Wed Jan 15 10:38:26 2003 Subject: Difference between octave and octave-atlas? From: "Henry F. Mollet" To: Octave_post Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 08:40:35 -0800 Otave-atlas is being discussed. What's the difference between octave and octave-atlas. According to below it's the atlas libs. But what is atlas libs? What are the fast blas and lgpack libs in the atlas package? Herny [Henry-Mollets-Computer:~] mollet% fink describe octave-atlas Information about 1785 packages read in 2 seconds. pkg octave-atlas version ### pkg octave-atlas version 2.1.35-6 octave-atlas-2.1.35-6: Matlab-like language, with atlas libs It provides a convenient command line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for performing other numerical experiments using a language that is mostly compatible with Matlab. It may also be used as a batch-oriented language. . Octave has extensive tools for solving common numerical linear algebra problems, finding the roots of nonlinear equations, integrating ordinary functions, manipulating polynomials, and integrating ordinary differential and differential-algebraic equations. It is easily extensible and customizable via user-defined functions written in Octave's own language, or using dynamically loaded modules written in C++, C, Fortran, or other languages. . This version links the fast blas and lapack libs from the atlas package. . Web site: http://www.octave.org/ . Maintainer: Jeffrey Whitaker ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------