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From: | Paul Thomas |
Subject: | Re: request recommendations for using octave with windows |
Date: | Thu, 16 Dec 2004 19:43:47 +0100 |
Michael,Have them download Cygwin. It will be good for their immortal souls to be gently led into a Linux environment. If you are feeling really ambitious, load X and nedit, whilst doing it. Alternatively, SciTe is an excellent editor. Finally, download your favourite octave and build it exactly as you would for Linux. Apart from a recent glitch, it does not present any problems at all. If you give a prefix other than the default, a binary for Cygwin can be circulated by tarring and zipping the lot.
Pau;----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Creel" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 9:49 AM Subject: request recommendations for using octave with windows
Hello all,I'm going to be teaching a class soon, and I'm going to have the students use Octave. Most of them are Windows users. I'll offer the possibility to use a Knoppix remaster to run Octave on Linux, but I imagine that most will prefer to use Windows. So I need to install Octave on some windows machines. I need Octave, any version from 2.1.57 or later, and a corresponding octave-forge. Idon't really care too much about performance, but I would like to avoid surprises like the ascii save/load problem mentioned recently. Also, I've seen a number of offerings of windows versions, but I haven't paid closeattention. Can people offer recommendations about which packages are easiestto install and offer the most Linux-like functionality? TIA, Michael ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------
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