From help-request at octave dot org Thu Dec 16 12:42:04 2004
Subject: Re: request recommendations for using octave with windows
From: "Paul Thomas" <paulthomas2 at wanadoo dot fr>
To: "Michael Creel" <michael dot creel at uab dot es>, <help@octave.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 19:43:47 +0100

Michael,

Have them download Cygwin.  It will be good for their immortal souls to be 
gently led into a Linux environment.  If you are feeling really ambitious, 
load X and nedit, whilst doing it.  Alternatively, SciTe is an excellent 
editor.  Finally, download your favourite octave and build it exactly as you 
would for Linux.  Apart from a recent glitch, it does not present any 
problems at all.  If you give a prefix other than the default, a binary for 
Cygwin can be circulated by tarring and zipping the lot.

Pau;

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Creel" <michael dot creel at uab dot es>
To: <help at octave dot org>
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 9:49 AM
Subject: request recommendations for using octave with windows


> 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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