Re: Newbie Problem

[Mike Miller]

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Matt Wozniak wrote:

> Hey, I installed a windows executable distribution of octave. Version 
> 2.1.5. I have boxes around all my letters when I type. How do I stop 
> them? Please email address@hidden if you have a suggestion. Yes, I am 
> a newbie =D.


I think you should use the new Octave and Octave-Forge with Cygwin.  They 
are up to 2.1.71 and it works really well, in my experience.  Here is an 
announcement:

To install, go here and start the cygwin installation:

http://cygwin.com/

Then see John Eaton's instruction here:

http://www.octave.org/mailing-lists/help-octave/2005/3255

I hope you like it.

Mike



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