From owner-help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Mon Jan 27 22:56:48 1997 Subject: ANNOUNCE: Octave Version 2.0.2 released From: "John W. Eaton" To: info-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 22:55:33 -0600 Octave version 2.0.2 is now available for ftp from ftp.che.wisc.edu in the directory /pub/octave. Diffs from the previous release are also available in the same directory. -rw-r--r-- 3281655 Jan 27 19:43 octave-2.0.2.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 91507 Jan 27 19:40 octave-2.0.1-2.0.2.patch.gz In addition to the source distributions, there are binary distributions available for Linux running on Intel systems and OSF/1 running on Alpha systems. Binary distributions for other platforms will be available from ftp.che.wisc.edu when they are contributed by volunteers. If you would like to help to make a binary distribution available, please contact bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu dot Version 2.0.2 is primarily a bug-fixing release. Most bugs reported since the release of version 2.0.1 have been fixed. There are also a few new features, including: * Octave now stops executing commands from a script file if an error is encountered. * The return and break commands now cause Octave to quit executing commands from script files. When used in invalid contexts, the break, continue, and return commands are now simply ignored instead of producing parse errors. * size ("") is now [0, 0]. * New functions: sleep -- pause execution for a specified number of seconds usleep -- pause execution for a specified number of microseconds You can help make Octave more reliable by reporting any bugs you find to bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu dot Octave is a high-level interactive language primarily intended for numerical computations. It is mostly compatible with Matlab. Additional information is available on the WWW at http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave -- John W. Eaton jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Chemical Engineering