function tic
%TIC Start a stopwatch timer.
%   The sequence of commands
%       TIC, operation, TOC
%   prints the number of seconds required for the operation.
%
%   See also TOC, CLOCK, ETIME, CPUTIME.

%   Copyright (c) 1984-98 by The MathWorks, Inc.
%   $Revision: 5.5 $  $Date: 1997/11/21 23:48:09 $

% TIC simply stores CLOCK in a global variable.
global TICTOC
TICTOC = clock;
