From help-request at octave dot org Fri Dec 24 08:02:46 2004
Subject: Re: Octave Installation problems/Problem Solved
From: LUK ShunTim <shuntim dot luk at polyu dot edu dot hk>
To: GERALD HOOPER <ghphpr at ntlworld dot com>
CC: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 22:07:20 +0800

GERALD HOOPER wrote:
> Thanks for all your help folks
> I now have Octave up and running under SuSe Linux 9.1 professional.
> The first example I tried tied up with the Matlab syntax and gave the 
> same answer as the Matlab manual. Is there a proper separate manual for 
> Octave?
> Gerry Hooper

Of course! You can even buy it from a book store. :-)
Here it is:
	http://www.octave.org/docs.html

I think the online version at octaveforge is more up-to-date.
	http://octave.sourceforge.net/index/index.html

Regards,
ST
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> GERALD HOOPER wrote:
> 
>> Hi Octave Experts
>> I was recently give some Matlab V5 Software which required Window 95 
>> which is now obsolete. The Linux Group at Leicester University 
>> suggested that I take a look at your Octave software which I did and 
>> downloaded and decompressed the tar archive OK. I then considered 
>> installing your Octave software but before doing so I decied to print 
>> out and read the shell files involved such as CONFIGURE!! This file 
>> took more than thirty pages of A4 to print and is such that I stand no 
>> chance of understanding its contents. The build processes for Octave 
>> seem to be very complex and involved and the instructions given in 
>> your Install files have really put me off proceeding further.
>> I am currently running the latest version of SuSe Linux on a standard 
>> PC with dual Pentium II processors. There should be a binary version 
>> of Octave available for such a configuration and I would be grateful 
>> for your advice in locating and installing i without too much hastle.
>> Thanks
>> Dr Gerry Hooper
>>
>>
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