installing f2matlab.4.0

Hi there,

This is probably not appropriate and so funny. However, I really need to ask it. I downloaded f2matlab4.0 zip package from Ben Barrow's website :

http://engineering.dartmouth.edu/~d30574x/consulting/consultingIndex.html

But there is no installation file. Some examples for fortran and matlab.I am trying to convert a Fortran code into Matlab.How can I install and run the program?

I appreciate whet he is doing btw..

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

There is an installation file. It is named INSTALL . It says,

The installation of f2matlab is straightforward. Simply gunzip and untar the source files
into some convenint directory. Note that f2matlab does not make its own directory. So make a
f2matlab directory somewhere and in that dir:
tar zxvf source.tar.gz

and put this directory onto the matlab path.

At this point, testing of f2matlab.m can be accomplished by following the examples section
of the README file.

[Meva]

Many thanks. But what is the meaning of in that dir: tar zxvf source.tar.gz

I am international and I do not know what it means What does it mean by tar zxvf source.tar.gz...