install help

[John W. Eaton]

On 29-Mar-1999, Seok-kyoung Kang <address@hidden> wrote:

| I'd like to install and use the octave program on win95.
| I have used the Cygnus Dev. Kit(B20) lately, but it's difficult to
| install the octave.
| I know there is a binary octave distribution for win95, and need that.
| I didn't find that at ftp.che.wisc.edu/pub/octave/BINARIES/gnu-win32/.
| octave-2.0.13-i386-pc-cygwin32.tar.gz
| This file is not a binary octave distribution.

I think it is.

| I tried to compile that several times, but failed.

You don't compile it, you ucompress and untar it, then follow the rest
of the directions to install the files.

| I find a binary distribution for OS2 (octave-2.0.13-b01.zip), and try to
| use that on win95:)

Why would you expect that to work?

jwe