Re: On-line help

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From: John Little
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 00:33

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In article <C1IH3v.Ax1@sunlab1.bath.ac.uk> Mark Hagger,
mapmh@sunlab1.bath.ac.uk writes:

>Does anyone else think that it would be _very_ useful if the inbuilt
>matlab functions had some kind of topic help option, something like
>the apropos (or man -k) option in UNIX.  On a general basis I run
>matlab without having a manual in front of me (the university only has
>3 copies so they are very restricted) so when I have no idea what the
>command is but have a good idea what I want it to (and that the
>command exists) its very annoying as I have to wander around the dept
>to find the manual.
>
>Of course knowing my luck this is probably a version 4.0 option.

How right you are.  Here's what I get by using the new "lookfor" command
with the string "fourier":

>> lookfor fourier

FFT	Discrete Fourier transform.
FFT2	Two-dimensional Fast Fourier Transform.
IFFT	Inverse discrete Fourier transform.
IFFT2	Two-dimensional inverse discrete Fourier transform.
FOURIER Graphics demo of Fourier series expansion.
DFTMTX	Discrete Fourier transform matrix.

>>

John Little

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