Installing and Using MATLAB on Mac OS X

Upgrading from 5.2

MATLAB

• isunix now returns true on the Macintosh.
• The file separator is no longer colon; it is slash (/). The path separator is no longer semicolon; it is colon (:).
• You cannot use AppleScript to run external scripts. You can use OS X's osascript utility to call your AppleScripts. To use osascript from MATLAB, you must use !, the shell escape character, or the MATLAB unix command.
• Putting MATLAB into pause mode no longer changes the cursor to a "P" as it did in previous Macintosh releases.
• Some features that worked on previous versions of MATLAB on the Macintosh do not work in this version. These include
• In the Editor/Debugger, Command+E used to save and run the file. In this version, F5 saves and runs the file.
• In this version, you cannot drag and drop selections between the Macintosh desktop and MATLAB.
• In this version, you cannot copy figures from MATLAB to the clipboard.
• In this version, there is no AppleEvent support.

MEX-Files

• Old Macintosh MEX-files (named .mex) do not work as is. They have to be (at least) recompiled, and the new MEX-file extension is .mexmac.

Case Sensitivity

HFS+ (Hierarchical File System) is the default file system included with Macintosh OS X. HFS+ is not case sensitive, so if you have an application named Test.sh and try to run it from the Terminal application, you could use either

• Test.sh
  

or

• test.sh
  

MATLAB is case sensitive. To run an M-file called Compute.m, you enter

• Compute
  

Upgrading from Previous Macintosh Versions

Upgrading from Releases After 5.2