The Matlab at UPitt runs on CIS machines under both unix and windows. This gives you a number of different ways to use it.

1.  You can go to the CIS lab across the street from Benedum Hall. It is in the building labeled "Calculus Lab". The windows machines there all have access to MatLab.

2. Log in remotely to unixs.cis.pitt.edu and call Matlab from there. You will need a CIS account to do this. All pitt students should have received such an account automatically.

The procedure for doing so from a departmental unix box is:

i) Type "xhost +" at the command line

 ii) Enter "ssh -l {username} unixs.cis.pitt.edu" replacing {username} with the appropriate handle

 iii) Once logged into unixs, type "setup matlab"

 iv) Type "matlab". MatLab should appear on the screen

The procedure for doing so from a departmental windows box is a bit different. If you are at a windows machine with a working X PC interface, then:

 i) Run the X interface

 ii) Telnet to unixs.cis.pitt.edu

 iii) Once logged in, type: "export DISPLAY={machine name}" replacing {machine name} as appropriate

iv) Type "setup matlab"

v) Type "matlab".

MatLab and the MatLab editor should appear on the screen. If you are at a windows machine without a working X PC interace, then you will still be able to use Matlab, but you will have to use pico, emacs, windows notepad, or some other editor in place of the MatLab editor. Procedure:

 i) Telnet to unixs.cis.pitt.edu

ii) Type "setup matlab"

iii) Type "matlab".

Matlab will run and appear in the telnet session window