binary install

[Jay Scott Goldstein]

Hello.  I have downloaded the binary octave file 
from sunsite, and when I try to execute
        sh ./doinstall.sh
it tells me that 
doinstall.sh: unable to extract version number from Octave!

Any help would be appreciated.  I am running Slackware
Linux on a 486 machine.

Regards,
Scott

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