Readme.txt in folder MSV
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This software is shareware and may freely be copied.
If you want to use it and if you are not student at 
the University of Hamburg, please cantact me.

Comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated and
should be sent to:

v.d.heide@on-line.de

or to

Prof. Dr. Klaus von der Heide
Universität Hamburg
Fachbereich Informatik
Vogt-Kölln-Str. 30
22527 Hamburg
Germany


Requirements to use the course material are:

(1)  MATLAB V5 (Student Edition is sufficient)
     V 5.3 has a better stability than 5.0 and 
     there are considerable improvements in the 
     toolboxes.
     If you use V 5.0 - V 5.2 you must add 
     the functions "fileparts" and "strncmpi". 
     In this case rename fileparts.txt and 
     strncmpi.txt into fileparts.m and strncmpi.m.

(2)  MATLAB signal toolbox
     This toolbox is supplied with the MATLAB Student Edition

(3)  MATLAB symbolic toolbox
     This toolbox is supplied with the MATLAB Student Edition
     This toolbox is rarely used. The lecture can well be 
     studied without this toolbox. But a few figures will 
     not be generated causing an error message. 

All chapters are MATLAB-script-files. But do not call 
them from the Command Window (although that will work).
Instead call the browser  mscriptview(CouseName)  from the 
command window. The CourseName must be in string quotes. 
Then a new Window will show the contents of the lecture.
Currently the courses 't1' , 'dsp' , and 'nt'  are 
available. 

You can click (mouse left) below and above the text to 
page down or upward. A first click on a red colored 
MATLAB-block will select it, a second click will 
execute that block. Further calls of mscriptview are 
colored green. Like the MATLAB-blocks you can select 
and open them by one or two mouse clicks. 
A selected block can be copied into a new editor window 
by the keystroke c. There you can edit and cut and paste 
it into the the command window which in any case remains 
free for arbitrary use.

Hitting the letter h on the keyboard should give a 
specific help text for the currently selected window.

Nearly all MATLAB-functions only use optional parameters. 
So you can type the file name and look what it is doing 
as an example. But learning is much more promoted by 
trying your own parameters. If you find some interesting 
details not yet contained in this lecture, please let me
know. Many of the functions use fixed figure positions 
optimized for screen resolutions  800 X 600  and 
1024 X 768. 

Most of these MATLAB-files are programmed on Sunday and 
released on Monday. If anything goes wrong, please report.
I hope to get some response, if someone outside uses it.

In October 2002

Klaus von der Heide