[MATLAB Central] Re: Running R2008b in Mac Terminal?

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i'm forwarding a posting by Brian Arnold, a mathworks engineer whose posts are generally helpful.

Denis Pelli
Professor of Psychology and Neural Science
New York University



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Subject: Re: Running R2008b in Mac Terminal?
From: Brian Arnold
Date: Fri Nov 07 22:37:27 -0500 2008

Hi,

I would open your .smat file from R2008a as a text file in a text
editor, copy the text, and paste it in as a shell script to be executed
from an AppleScript. If you save your script as an application, you can
add that to the Dock.

FWIW, everything that StartMATLAB did can be done without it; there is
no magic here, StartMATLAB was simply packaging up what you can already
assemble on your own. We will look into re-enabling it in a future
release, once we learn from our mistakes on how to assemble it.

- Brian

Felix Lam wrote:
> The StartMATLAB application seems to be gone in R2008b. Does anyone know if there's a way to configure the dock icon so that it starts X11, etc. but then runs MATLAB in the terminal?
>
> I tried looking into several plists in the MATLAB.app package but didn't find anything relevant to a startup execution string. Any ideas? Thanks.
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