native eigs versus arpack eigs

[brendan detracey]

Hello,
Finally got Octave compiled on CentOs 5.2 x86_64, thanks to help from this 
mailing list. Did not bother with "experimental" 64-bit compile, yet.

1) Now I wonder, what is the difference between the eigs command in the ARPACK 
interface vs. the native eigs command? Is it worth the bother?

2) I can't for the life of me find the Octave equivalent of the Matlab command 
"display"

Thanks
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Brendan
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