# Octave

Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically.

## News

Version 2.0.10 was released Friday February 6, 1998. Most bugs reported since the release of version 2.0 have been fixed.

Version 2.0 was released Tuesday December 10, 1996. There are many new features including:

- dynamic linking support on more systems
- user-defined data types
- many new functions
- lots of bug fixes

A more complete list of changes for version 2 is a available as is an older list of changes for versions up to 1.1.1.

### Source and Binaries

Octave source and binaries are available by anonymous ftp from ftp://ftp.che.wisc.edu/pub/octave.

Additional information about using Octave on OS/2 systems is available, thanks to the work of Klaus Gebhardt.

Binaries for Windows NT/95 systems are also available, thanks to the work of Mumit Khan.

### Documentation

To get started, there is a brief introduction, and also the preface to the manual. For more detailed information, you can browse the complete documentation, which has been converted to HTML directly from the Texinfo source using texi2html.

If you still have questions, there is always the FAQ (with answers).

### Mailing Lists

There are three active mailing lists devoted to Octave. The help-octave mailing list is available for questions related to using, installing, and porting Octave that are not adequately answered by the Octave manual or by the FAQ. The bug-octave list is used for reporting bugs. the octave-sources list is for posting sources and enhancements to Octave. A complete archive of postings and instructions for joining the lists is also available.

### Contributed Functions

An archive of contributed functions for Octave is available from http://www.tsc.uvigo.es/GTS/Octave.

John W. Eaton
jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu
University of Wisconsin
Department of Chemical Engineering
Madison WI 53719