NA Digest, Vol.94, #15, 1994  
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From: Cleve Moler <moler@MathWorks.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 1994 13:56:14 -0400
Subject: Harwell-Boeing Connection to MATLAB

New software is available which facilitates MATLAB access to sparse
matrices in the Harwell-Boeing Sparse Matrix collection.

The Harwell Boeing collection is available via anonymous FTP from
the CERFACS research laboratory in France:
    orion.cerfacs.fr (130.63.200.33)
The collection is in directory
    pub/harwell_boeing
A compressed, postscript file contained a detailed user's guide is
    pub/harwell_boeing/userguide.ps.Z

The new conversion software is available via anonymous FTP from
the MathWorks:
    ftp.mathworks.com (144.212.100.10)
There are two files in directory
    pub/mathworks/toolbox/matlab/sparse
The first file is hbo2mat.f, Fortran source code for a stand alone
program which reads Harwell-Boeing data files and uses the MATLAB
External Interface Library to convert them to .mat files.  The second
file is hbo.m, a MATLAB function which loads one of the .mat
files and completes the conversion.

   -- Cleve Moler
   moler@mathworks.com