From help-request at octave dot org Tue Apr 26 14:00:12 2005
Subject: Installing latest version of Octave using Fink
From: Jeremy Miner <minerj at uci dot edu>
To: help at octave dot org
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 13:55:27 -0500

Hello,

I'm running Mac OS 10.3 and have installed Octave using Fink.

I'm getting the following error:

octave:9> load simdata1.mat
error: load: invalid element type
error: load: trouble reading binary file `simdata1.mat'

I understand this to be a problem with Octave reading the formatting of 
the binary files from Matlab.  I've been told that upgrading from 
Octave version 2.1.53 to version 2.1.69 should resolve this problem.  
How do I get the latest version of Octave using Fink?

Thanks

Jeremy



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