Re: newbie questions

[A. Scottedward Hodel]

>Salutations all,
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>2) Is there really *no* version of Octave for MacOS, my preferred platform ?

One may run Octave under MachTen Unix, which allows simultaneous MacOS and Unix
applications to run.  MachTen is a commercial application, web location
http://www.tenon.com.  It unfortunately does not permit dynamic linking (shared 
library functions) in a standard Unix sense, and so (on this platform) you must 
directly incorporate any compiled functions into the Octave executable.  See
the file README.MachTen in the Octave distribution for compilation instructions.

I haven't heard of any Octave experiences under, e.g., MkLinux.

>3) I never installed Linux but this might be the occasion to do it. Has
>anybody compiled Octave for some flavor of Linux running on Power Macs ? Or is
>there a simple procedure (simple for a non-unixian I mean) to compile it ?

Under Unix, the procedure is quite simple (usually):

configure (.... options go here, see the README docs ...)
make all
make install

The above instructions are modified slightly for MachTen.

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A S Hodel Assoc. Prof. Dept Elect Eng, Auburn Univ,AL  36849-5201
On leave at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (256) 544-1426
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