[1061] in netbsd-help mailing list archive
Re: matlab
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Oct 15 13:18:58 1996
To: Eric Sit <esit@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Oct 1996 10:28:55 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 13:17:58 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> Will NetBSD 1.2 support the Athena Matlab?
Both NetBSD 1.1 and NetBSD 1.2 "support" the Athena Matlab, but there
is a bug right now (which we don't understand yet) which prevents
Matlab from working with graphics on both NetBSD and some Linux
machines. (This bug didn't used to exist; I'm not sure when it was
introduced, and I'm beginning to suspect some form of binary
corruption.) If you unset your DISPLAY environment variable, you can
get Matlab to run, but you wont have graphing.
(There is a separate problem in NetBSD 1.1 which prevents it from
running some newer binaries like the Linux Netscape. That problem is
fixed in NetBSD 1.2, I'm pretty sure.)
