X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-Id: Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 04:14:54 -0800 (PST) From: "James R. Phillips" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New Release: octave-forge 2006.03.17 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Reply-To: The Cygwin Mailing List Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com INFO ==== The Cygwin octave-forge package has been updated to release 2006.03.17-1. This is the first Cygwin release to incorporate D. Bateman's fixed-point package, useful for designing fixed-point signal processing applications. Changes (from release notes): 2006-03-16 == * statistics/regress: new function 2006-01-28 == * audio/waveread: big-endian fix; 2-channel file fix * comm/galois: fix rank calculation for galois array * general/interp2: cubic interpolation * image/: return MxNx3 matrices of appropriate numeric class * io/textread: faster * io/dlmwrite: control precision and line separator; allow append * miscellaneous/mfilename: compatibility function * miscellaneous/listen: subnet patterns; loopback support * NaN/xcovf: missing data xcorr * octcdf/: support for netcdf files * optim/wpolyfit: return row vector; allow centering and scaling * plot/legend: fix error on first call * plot/print: add PDF option * signal/residued,residuez: partial fraction expansion of filters * signal/qp_kaiser: PPN filter bank coefficients * statistics/histfit: allow negative data * statistics/mvnpdf,mvnrnd: multivariate normal distribution * tsa/: improved speed, style and docs * tsa/amarma: adaptive mean ARMA modeling * tsa/y2res: add entropy estimation; add equidistant quantisation * tsa/mvfreqz: add PDCF * support for 2.9.4 * support for 64-bit indexing * support for MinGW build The octave-forge project contains over 500 contributed functions for GNU Octave which are not in the main distribution. These functions are grouped according to the following subdirectories: audio, comm, control, general, geometry, fixed, ident, image, io, linear-algebra, miscellaneous, optim, path, plot, set,signal, sparse, specfun, special-matrix, splines, statistics, strings, struct, symbolic, time. The Cygwin distribution of octave-forge also incorporates m-files from the octave-ci collection. octave-forge home page: http://octave.sourceforge.net octave-ci collection: ftp://ftp.ci.tuwien.ac.at/pub/octave/octave-ci.tar.gz UPDATE ====== To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Save it and run setup, answer the questions and pick up 'octave-forge' from the 'Math' category. Then click on the 'skip' field next to 'octave-forge' until '2006.03.17' is displayed. DOWNLOAD: ========= Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) aren't allowed due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will need to find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to you: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html QUESTIONS: ========== If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com is the appropriate place. CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO: ================================= To unsubscribe to the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-YOU=YOURDOMAIN DOT COM AT cygwin DOT com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. MAINTAINER ========== James R. Phillips -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/