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Chapter 10
MATLABandthe
Internet
In this chapter, we discuss a number of interrelated subjects: how to use the
Internet to get additional help with MATLAB and to find MATLAB programs
for certain specific applications, how to disseminate MATLAB programs over
the Internet, and how to use MATLAB to prepare documents for posting on
the World Wide Web.
MATLAB Help on the Internet
For answers to a variety of questions about MATLAB, it pays to visit the web
site for The MathWorks,
http://www.mathworks.com
(In MATLAB 6, the Web menu on the Desktop menu bar can take you there
automatically.) Since files on this site are moved around periodically, we won't
tell you precisely what is located where, but we will point out a few things
to look for. First, you can find complete documentation sets for MATLAB and
all the toolboxes. This is particularly useful if you didn't install all the docu-
mentation locally in order to save space. Second, there are lists of frequently
asked questions about MATLAB, bug reports and bug fixes, etc. Third, there is
an index of MATLAB-based books (including this one), with descriptions and
orderinginformation.Andfinally,therearelibrariesofM-files,developedboth
by The MathWorks and by various MATLAB users, which you can download
for free. These are especially useful if you need to do a standard sort of calcu-
lation for which there are established algorithms but for which MATLAB has
no built-in M-file; in all probability, someone has written an M-file for it and
made it available. You can also find M-files and MATLAB help elsewhere on
the Internet; a search on “MATLAB” will turn up dozens of MATLAB tutorials
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