Re: Spyware in Octave

[Michael Goffioul]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 5:51 PM, dbateman <address@hidden> wrote:
>> sed.exe appears to be installed in two places.  The 100K file is in the
>> Octave\bin directory.  There is also another sed.exe that is installed
>> in the Octave\mysys\bin directory which is only 47K.  Only the
>> Octave\bin\sed.exe is flagged as being suspicious.
>>
>
> Not sure why Michael included a second version. Perhaps he built his own
> MSVC sed in octave/bin/sed.exe and the other one just happened to be there,
> built with mingw, when he installed msys. You'd have to ask Michael for the
> reason.

To be able to use octave help without MinGW being around.

Michael.