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+## Copyright (C) 2006-2012 David Bateman
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
+## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
+## your option) any later version.
+##
+## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+## General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see
+## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {} mex [options] file @dots{}
+## Compile source code written in C, C++, or Fortran, to a MEX file.
+## This is equivalent to @code{mkoctfile --mex [options] file}.
+## @seealso{mkoctfile}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+function mex (varargin)
+ args = {"--mex", varargin{:}};
+ mkoctfile (args{:});
+endfunction