RE: Octave 2.1.70 with cygwin

[John W. Eaton]

On 24-May-2005, Carine Simon wrote:

| Thanks for your help John. I've finally installed more packages for
| cygwin like tetex and could install everything. The weird thing is I
| couldn't make gnuplot worked with the default version of gnuplot for
| cygwin.

What do you mean that it didn't work?  Precisely what was the problem?
Did you start X before running Octave?  The gnuplot that is
distributed with Cygwin requires X to display plots on the screen.

| Now, it all works having downloaded gp400win32.zip.

That is also an OK solution if you do not need to display multiple
figures on the screen at once.

| On the other hand, I would be very interested in a chapter explaining a
| bit what has been discussed in that list on what and how to install
| octave to run fast. Unfortunately, I can't help for that!

Why not?

jwe



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