Fwd: MinGW Octave Installer

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

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> To:address@hidden
> Subject:MinGW Octave Installer
> Date:Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:38:57 -0400
> From:address@hidden
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> 
> Dr. Tatsuro Matsuoka, Associate Professor
> Gradudate School of Engineering.
> Department of Chemical Engineering
> Department of Molecular Design and Engineering
> Nagoya University, Japan
> 
> Dr. Matsuoka:
> 
> I took your advice and abanonded the Cygwin/Bash/ Octave approach.
> Following your specific instructions for MinGW 4.3 GNUPLOT,  I have
> downloaded it, and it  executes perfectly well on Windows98 as a stand
> alone application.
> 
> Thus I am encouraged that there are MnGW OCTAVE versions that will run
> on Windows98.
> 
> After all,  before there was Windows2000, NT, XP, 7   there was MinGW
> Octave executing on Windows9x,  because thats all there was.
> 
> But now, Octave 3.0.2, 3.0.5, 3.2.0  binary setup.exe installers all
> demand Windows2000 or later versions.    But even these versions of
> Octave use
> GNUPLOT 4.3  which does execute on Windows98,  as you have shown me,
> and which I
> am now running.
> 
> Thus it seems reasonable MinGW 3.0.2, 3.0.5, 3.2.0 Octave will execute
> on Window98 (after all GNUPLOT executes), but the corresponding binary
> setup.exe installers do not allow it,   and probably a whole new build
> of the installer is required.
> 
> Again. thanks for your assistance.
> 
> Respectfully,
> mjg
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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