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  Scilab is a CACSD package developed at INRIA in
the Meta2 project. Complete source and binaries for several popular 
Unix-X Window systems and Windows 95/98/NT are available.
  
  Scilab is free software. It can be used both in academia and in industry
free of charge (see file notice.tex in the distribution).

  Scilab is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical
computations; it includes a number of toolboxes and on-line documentation.
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  Scilab 2.5 has been tested on Windows
95, 98 and NT. For the history feature (the creation of "scilab.hist"
text file that contains the history of all user's commands), you may have
to set the environment variable HOME. HOME is normally your home directory.
If HOME does not exist, Scilab may issue an error message: you may ignore it.
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 Windows specific files: there are two binary versions of Scilab in 
directory "distributions". Go to it and read the file "Readme_Windows.txt".
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Documents related to Scilab are also given.

1 - You have all the demos of Scilab in HTML format in directory
"demos": use the file "demos.html".

2 - You have Scilab reference manual and the reference manuals of all
the toolboxes in HTML, PDF and POSTSCRIPT format in directory
"documentation". These manuals are:

 manual		Scilab Reference Manual: on-line documentation
 intro		Introduction to Scilab
 internals	Guide for Developers
 scicos		Scicos: user's guide
 signal		Signal Processing with Scilab
 metanet	Metanet: user's guide and tutorial
 lmi		Lmitool: user's guide
 comm		Communication Toolbox
 demarrer	Demarrer en Scilab et statistiques en Scilab (en francais) 
 introduction	Introduction a Scilab (en francais) 
 HOWTO Scilab	Some HOWTO about scilab
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Outside contributions to Scilab are in the "contrib" directory:
http://www-rocq.inria.fr/scilab/contributions.html

ANN		Artificial neural network toolbox
arr2xpm		Generates XPM bitmaps
delicado	Manual de introduccion al tratamiento de senales
EVOL		Evolution strategy toolbox
emacs		Gnu Emacs editing mode for scilab functions
faults_d	Fault detection scilab toolbox
FEM_Post	Finite Element Post Processing tools
FISLAB		Fuzzy logic inference toolbox
fsqp		Interface Scilab-FSQP optimization tool
genfilt		Generates the assembler code implementing IIR filters
hmm		Hidden Markov Models scilab toolbox
image		Few functions for reading and writing images
Interactive	documents with Scilab If you want to call scilab from PDF or 
		HTML documents, you have found the right place (by Stephane Mottelet). 
lipsol		Linear-programming Interior-Point SOLvers for Scilab
Mac		Macintosh 2.1.1 version
mexfiles	For using Matlab mexfiles in Scilab
misc		Miscellaneous scilab functions
NETBSD		NetBSD support
oldsave		Tools for saving into old 2.3 binary format
Plotting	library This library is supposed to help you to make plots as
		if you were using Matlab (by Stephane Mottelet). 
STIXBOX		Statistics toolbox for the "agregation de mathematiques"
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Newsgroup
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"comp.soft-sys.math.scilab" newsgroup is devoted to Scilab.  This
newsgroup is a good place to exchange experience, ideas and Scilab
programs. Of course it is also the right place to ask and answer
questions about problems and suggestions.

SciClub
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To keep up with the latest developments in Scilab World, you can
become a member of SciClub. By sending an e-mail to:

                  Scilab@inria.fr
with subject      SciClub
and content       Your Email Address

you become a member and receive latest news on Scilab (information 
on patchs, toolboxes, versions, contributions ...).

Web server
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You can also surf into our Web server:

http://www-rocq.inria.fr/scilab

where your will find information and documentation about Scilab.
A guided tour of Scilab functionalities can also be found there.

Contributions
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If you have a contribution to Scilab which you like to share with the
Scilab community, you can send us a description and its availability,
we will put the information in a contrib file and announce it in
SciClub and in newsgroup.