Re: "Matlab to Scilab for Dummies" anywhere?

Joerg wrote:

Hello All,

After finding some possibly useful routines to calculate filters (wave digital in this case) I got stuck because these are for Matlab. I only have Scilab and next to no experience with it. The files are mostly *.m, some *.p and a few graphics GUI files *.fig. Scilab doesn't understand any of these.

Is there a text somewhere, along the lines of "Matlab to Scilab file conversion for dummies"?

The brief instructions for routines like "loadmatfile" on Scilab's site are simply not verbose enough for an analog guys like me :-(

Octave is quite compatible with MatLab.

I like the SciLab syntax and environment better, but it's _not_ friendly to beginners (but then neither are MatLab or Octave).

SciLab does have routines to translate a matlab script into a scilab script. Typing 'help matlab' at the command line will get you quite a few hits. The conversion covers the *.m files, but I'm not sure what the *.p or *.fig files do, or if SciLab can handle them. There is a SciLab newsgroup on which you can post your questions -- comp.soft-sys.scilab.org.

Absent considerations of being compatible with industry, I recommend SciLab over MatLab - even if both were free. If you're going to do a lot of work with customers who want m files then you're kind of stuck with MatLab or Octave, but I haven't had that happen to me more than once in the last three years.

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