Technical Notes

Technical notes are written by members of our Technical Support staff to address some commonly asked questions, and should be used as examples only. They include some tips and techniques that you may find useful, but this code has not been fully tested and therefore is not fully supported by The MathWorks, Inc.

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1.0 General

1.1 Running MATLAB in the Background Under UNIX

1.2 Multi-dimensional Arrays in MATLAB

1.3 The eval Command

1.4 Importing MATLAB Graphs into Word Processors

2.0 Graphics

2.1 Printing Objects with Interpolated Shading

2.2 Controlling Axis Labels and Titles

2.3 Printing Line Styles

2.4 Creating Movies

2.5 Animation

2.6 Text, Labels, and Title Font Control

2.7 Shaded Parametric Lines

2.8 Modified errorbar which Cycles Through Line Styles

2.9 Reading SUN Raster Image Files into MATLAB

2.10 How To Set The Tick Locations and Labels

2.11 Which Image/Graphics Formats Can MATLAB Read In?

3.0 Installation and License Manager

3.1 Cannot Start MATLAB 4.1.1 on Convex

3.2 Error on VAX/VMS: APP-DEFAULTS FILE NOT FOUND

3.3 Running VMS MATLAB 4.1.1 and MATLAB 3.5

3.4 Tar Request a Second Tape On an SGI

3.5 HP9000/700: MATLAB Can Only Be Run as Root

4.0 File I/O, Load, and Save

4.1 Loading and Saving Data In MATLAB

5.0 MEX And Engine

5.1 Supported Compilers

5.2 MEX-files on the HP 9000/700

5.3 Introduction to cmex, Part I

5.4 Introduction to cmex, Part II

5.5 Creating C++ MEX-files

6.0 Signals

6.1 Signal Processing Toolbox Changes

6.2 Using FFT to Obtain Simple Spectral Analysis Plots

7.0 SIMULINK

7.1 Algebraic Loops and S-functions

7.2 The Uses and Limitations of linmod

7.3 Masking in SIMULINK

7.4 Buffering Data in SIMULINK

7.5 Why is My Simulation Running So Slowly?

7.6 How to Use set_param and get_param

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