Preamble

SCILAB is currently being developed and INRIA desires that it can be used by the scientific community in a spirit of friendship and cooperation. To this end, INRIA has decided to have SCILAB distributed in source code format by FTP. However, copyright subsists on the part of SCILAB which has been developed at INRIA. SCILAB's numeric library makes use of several public domain or freely - distributed (and copyrighted by other organizations) programs.