Installation guide

1 Startup and Shutdown
Assume that when you double-click a .mat file in Windows Explorer, it opens
in Microsoft Access, but you want the file to open in MATLAB.
1 In Windows E xplorer, select Tools > Folder Options.
2 In the resulting Folder Options dialog box, select the File Types tab. From
the Registered file types list, select the
MAT extension. (If you do not see
MAT in the list, click New to add it.)
Under Details for ’MAT’ extension,clickChange.
3 In the resulting Open With dialog box, select MATLAB from the l ist.
If MATLAB is not l isted, click Browse. Then look for and select
matlab.exe,andclickOpen. The file is located in the f old er i n which
you installed MATLAB. An example of the default location is
C:\Program
Files\MATLAB\R2007b\bin
.
4 In the Open With dialog box, click OK. In the Folder Options dialog box,
click Close.
Star ting MATLAB on UNIX Platforms
To start MATLAB on a UNIX platform, type MATLAB at the op er ating system
prompt.
If you did not set up symbolic links in the installation procedure, you m ust
enter the full pathname to start MATLAB,
matlabroot/bin/matlab,where
matlabroot is the name of your MATLAB installation directory. If you have
trouble startin g MATLAB, see troublesh ooti n g in fo r mation in the I n stallation
Guide for UNIX.
After starting MATLAB, the desktop opens. D esktop components that were
open when you last shut down MATLAB will be opened on startup. For more
information, see Chapter 2, “Desktop”. If the
DISPLAY environment variable is
not set or is invalid, the desktop will not disp lay.
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