From help-octave-request  Tue Jul 20 22:51:45 1993
Subject: Octave version 0.74 released
From: John Eaton <jwe>
To: help-octave
Cc: jbraw
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 93 22:51:40 EDT

Octave version 0.74 is now available for ftp from ftp.che.utexas.edu
in the directory /pub/octave.  Compressed and gzipped tar files are
available, as are diffs relative to version 0.73.1.

This is primarily a bug-fixing release.  There is only one major new
feature:

  * Multiple assignment expressions are now allowed to take indices,
    so things like

      octave:13> [a([1,2],[3,4]), b([5,6],[7,8])] = lu ([1,2;3,4])

    will work correctly.

We are now distributing tar files with binaries included and currently
have versions available for DECstation, SPARCstation, and IBM RS/6000
systems.  If you would like to volunteer to make binaries available
for other systems, please contact bug-octave at che dot utexas dot edu dot 

To save space, the binary distributions no longer contain the full
source for Octave, but the full source is still available on
ftp.che.utexas.edu.

Octave's Texinfo documentation is far from complete, but has been
included in this distribution anyway.  Comments on the organization
and layout of the manual are welcome, as are any additions and
corrections.  If you are interested in working on the manual, please
contact bug-octave at che dot utexas dot edu dot 

Thanks,

--
John W. Eaton      | Among other things, we have added the missing semicolon.
jwe at che dot utexas dot edu|  |                   -- Jim Blandy, announcing Emacs 19.15.