From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Tue May 11 18:40:51 1999 Subject: Installing Octave for Windows 95 From: Dirk Eddelbuettel To: J dot P dot Fletcher at aston dot ac dot uk Cc: help-octave Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 19:41:21 -0400 (EDT) John> I want to put togetgher a new installation of Octave on a computer John> running Windows 95 OSR2. The latest Win95 binary seems to be Octave John> 2.0.13. There are later versions of the Cygwin software, eg. B20.1. John> I have another computer where I have B19 running. Which version of John> the Cygwin software should I use, Under NT 4.0 SP3, I used 2.0.13 with cygwin b19, and it didn't work very well [ compared to the Linux version ] when more memory was used. However, with a new computer, I tried cygwin b20.1 and it works very well. The downside is that it is a bit of a pain to install. You -- need to install cygwin b20.1 (and better take the version with compiler) -- should install egcs 1.2 from Mumit Khan's site which can be installed over cygwin b20.1 (Mumit is core contributor to egcs) These two give you a "core Unix under Windows". Now you can compile. For Octave to work well, you need to install -- a less binary (I believe there is one on Octave's site) -- a gnuplot binary and a fixed pipe-gnuplot (see the Octave site) John> and is there a later version of Octave (2.0 series) available for John> Win95? I don't think someone has contributed a binary package. I recompiled Octave 2.0.14 (worked without a glitch), and run it daily at work. Hope this helps, Dirk -- According to the latest figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.