From help-request at octave dot org Thu Dec 16 09:42:38 2004
Subject: RE: request recommendations for using octave with windows
From: "Ryan Peterson" <petersonryanace at hotmail dot com>
To: michael dot creel at uab dot es, help@octave.org
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 09:43:25 -0600

As a seasoned plug 'n play windows user and a novice linux user I found Paul 
Soderlind's install instructions for windows to be very straightforward and 
(as a bonus) up to date!  The page is available here:

http://home.tiscalinet.ch/paulsoderlind/Software/Software.html#OctaveInstallation

There are three levels of complexity for the install he suggests - the first 
and easiest of which - the executable install program doesn't support N-d 
matrices.  I helped write a chapter in a text about  octave (though that was 
before N-d matrix support) in undergrad computational physics.  If you're 
interested I could dig up the digital copy.
Good luck,
Ryan Peterson

>From: Michael Creel <michael dot creel at uab dot es>
>To: help at octave dot org
>Subject: request recommendations for using octave with windows
>Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 09:49:21 +0100
>
>Hello all,
>I'm going to be teaching a class soon, and I'm going to have the students 
>use
>Octave. Most of them are Windows users. I'll offer the possibility to use a
>Knoppix remaster to run Octave on Linux, but I imagine that most will 
>prefer
>to use Windows. So I need to install Octave on some windows machines. I 
>need
>Octave, any version from 2.1.57 or later, and a corresponding octave-forge. 
>I
>don't really care too much about performance, but I would like to avoid
>surprises like the ascii save/load problem mentioned recently. Also, I've
>seen a number of offerings of windows versions, but I haven't paid close
>attention. Can people offer recommendations about which packages are 
>easiest
>to install and offer the most Linux-like functionality? TIA, Michael
>
>
>
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