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New oct-file "qzcomplex" for bringing the complex QZ decomposition to Octave. Fixes issues with partial information under Octave.

- fail when user tries to initialize a variable at a period which is not in the model, and make the error message explicit
- correctly handle exogenous variables in stochastic mode, which are also substituted with an aux var
- added test files

Track #21: Add partial information: Correcting bug stemming from the differences in QZ calculation under Octave and Matlab: modified PI_gensys to use C.Sims' Lapack zgges based qzcomplex() qz decomposition routine under Octave which gives nearly identical complex results to Matlab QZ (except for transpose of q matrix and few sign changes in the output matrices)

Preprocessor: fix possible bug in histval (need to limit search of aux vars to aux vars for lagged vars, otherwise we could have a wrong match with some other kind)

Fixed bug in the initialization of the metropolis when mode_compute=6 was previously used (so that we have an optimal mh scale factor)
and option load_mh_file is used. After the (stochastic) optimization, the optimal value of the scale parameter is saved in a mat file.

2) fixed bug in sync of sequence of files sent to remote slaves;

C++ Estimation DLL: Update of logMHMCMCposterior and auxiliary files: added progress bar and recovery from file and tied up few loose ends - still unstable !

dr1.m: move up error message for purely forward models, otherwise it is not displayed with k_order_perturbation

2) fixed bug with logic of islocal;
3) better cleanup of remnants;
4) fixed bug with sending and DELETING P*End.txt files;

- Extends the algorithms compatible with bytecode to compute the  steady-state (ticket #11). The new values for solve_algo are:
   * 0: fsolve
   * 1: solve1
   * 2, 4: solve1 + block decomposition
   * 3: csolve
   * 5: LU decomposition with UMFPack (method handling sparse matrix in Matlab)
   * 6: GMRES
   * 7: BiCGStab
   * 8: bytecode own solver (use Gaussian elimination + sparse matrix)

- Bytecode can now evaluate a specific block instead of the overall blocks (new bytecode's option 'Block = block_number')

- extends the error messages in mex_interface (necessary to emulate the mex functions in a standalone mode for debugging purposes)

- adds bytecode_debug.m m-file to save the global variables. Necessary to run bytecode in a standalone mode for debugging purposes.

Moved qzdiv.m and qzswitch.m to top-level (they are now used by both partial information code and mjdgges.m)