Path: utzoo!lsuc!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!neat.cs.toronto.edu!krj From: krj@na.toronto.edu (Ken Jackson) Newsgroups: ut.na Subject: MATLAB Users' Group Message-ID: <89Nov11.122657est.2396@neat.cs.toronto.edu> Date: 11 Nov 89 17:27:36 GMT Distribution: ut Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto Lines: 142 Date: Fri, 10 Nov 89 17:19:35 EST From: bischof@antares.mcs.anl.gov Subject: welcome to MUG Welcome to the Matlab mailing list. Sorry for responding so late, but I was out of the country for the last five weeks. Here is the message which describes how we intend the mailing list to work. -- Chris Bischof =================================================================== Fellow Matlab users, thank you all for replying to Howard Wilson's message about forming a Matlab user group. Howard Wilson, Don Mackison and I met in August and discussed how we should go about it. We agreed that there is a need for both a forum for discussion, i.e. a mailing list, and a facility for sharing code. Here is the current outline and we would welcome your comments. Submission & Distribution ========================= Electronic submissions are preferred, since they generate the least amount of hassle. Please document your code well: o write a brief abstract (w/ keywords) describing the functinality of the code. This will be used in an index for the codes. o document input and output parameters and indicate optional arguments o check consistency of input and output parameters and generate appropriate error messages. o include your name, address (US-mail + email) and phone number o include references to literature upon which code is based o if possible, write functions to avoid side effects (as compared to simple scripts) Ideally, you should also supply a little shell that exercises the code. This is particularly important if several routines are to be used together, since it will show a prospective user how they all fit together. Howard mentioned that there have been problems sending code from IBM installations, in that braces and carets have been messed up. As a convention, code can also be submitted that has (* instead of [ (left brace) *) instead of ] (right brace) ** instead of ^ (caret) This seems to pass IBM mailers unscathed. Also make sure that lines are no longer than 80 characters, as some PC IBM-emulation cards seem to truncated files past 80 characters. The code depository will be the well-known NETLIB facility operated by Jack Dongarra (now at U Tennessee at Knoxville and Oak Ridge National Laboratory). Since the netlib software cannot detect calling dependencies between different m-files, it is important that you indicate which routines should be bundled in one file. Currently we plan to split the submissions into the following subdirectories: Control Graphics Optimization Integration Approximation (includes interpolation) Linear Algebra Root Finding Partial Differential Equations Ordinary Differential Equations Instructional Applications Special Functions Miscellaneous In order to submit code, please send it to matlab-library@mcs.anl.gov I will look it over, update the indices, and periodically update the matlab library at Oak Ridge. Mailing List ============ We also agreed that it would be a good idea to have a matlab mailing list in order to discuss Matlab or any other topic that is deemed to be interesting. You are by default on this list. Submissions will NOT be monitored and will be sent out automatically to all members on the mailing list. We might reconsider this decision later if message traffic becomes too heavy. In order send a message to the matlab mailing list, send it to matlab-users@mcs.anl.gov If you want to be added/deleted from the list or have any gripes concerning distribution of the mailing list, send mail to matlab-users-request@mcs.anl.gov I should add that several people are very enthoused with Matlab as a teaching vehicle and want to organize a minisymposium on the use of mathematically oriented computing environments like Matlab, Gauss, CLAM, MathStation, Mathematica or the like at the next SIAM meeting. Get in touch with David Hill Dept. of Mathematics Temple University 038-16 Philadelphia, PA 19122 (215) 787-1654 v5250E%templevm@cornellc.tn.cornell.edu if you are interested in participating. For the people not on the network ================================= There is a substantial (although probably shrinking) community of Matlab users who do not have access to the net. In order to keep this community halfway updated of our activities, we will periodically have a column in the Mathworks newsletter describing activities and code submissions. Howard has volunteered to act as ``floppy clearinghouse'' for non-electronic submissions, although the sending of code on floppies to users will be handled by the Mathworks. Organizers addresses: ==================== Christian Bischof Howard Wilson Don Mackison Math. & Comp. Sc. Division Engineering Mechanics Ball Aerospace Argonne National Laboratory 210 Hardaway Hall P.O. Box 1062 9700 S. Cass Ave.a University of Alabama Boulder, CO 80306 Argonne, IL 60439 Tuscaloosa, Ala. 35587 (303) 939-5880 (708) 972-8875 (205) 348-1617 (303) 442-4812 (Fax) (708) 972-5986 (Fax) (205) 348-8573 (Fax) bischof@mcs.anl.gov hwilson@ua1vm.ua.edu I welcome your comments and codes. Expecting the onslaught, I will be traveling from Sept. 27 - Oct. 31, so don't be surprised if you don't get an answer soon. -- Chris Bischof --------------------- Reposted by Prof. Kenneth R. Jackson, krj@na.toronto.edu (on Internet, CSNet, Computer Science Dept., ARPAnet, BITNET) University of Toronto, krj@na.utoronto.ca (on CDNnet and other Toronto, Ontario, X.400 nets (Europe)) Canada M5S 1A4 ...!{uunet,pyramid,watmath,ubc-cs}!utai!krj (Phone: 416-978-7075) (on UUCP) (FAX: 416-978-4765)