Re: Octave workshop for Octave 3.0.0 on windows Xp

[Quentin Spencer]

Kaisa S wrote:
> Thanks for all the comments and suggestions how to solve "my problem". I have
> no problem using the command line in Octave, I mostly unlike the visual
> environment with a black background and white text ... mostly because it
> forces me to swap glasses and that makes me feel old :).I will try hard to
> change that.  I have only had Octave on my computer for 3 workdays and I am
> still trying to find my way through it. For me Octave or MatLab or whatever
> are only tools - my profession is building science not numerical analysis or
> computational whatever - just like I use a knife and fork to eat my lunch.
> At this stage Octave is a bit like eating with chop-sticks - I'm not used to
> it, I manage but it is much slower. Moritz Borgmann sumarized some of the
> features that I also found helpful in MatLab, I realize that I can get the
> same information through different commands in Octave, but having them
> available when working was good for me. I really appreciate the openness of
> Octave through GNU so I have no plans of swaping to matLab, just because the
> "lack" of a GUI. ´
>   

If your only problem is the colors of the DOS command line terminal, I 
believe that can be changed by right clicking in the title bar, going to 
"properties", and selecting the "colors" tab. If I recall correctly, 
when you enter the changes, you will be asked whether to modify just the 
open window, or the shortcut that opened the window as well.

Quentin