From help-request at octave dot org Tue May 24 08:57:44 2005 Subject: RE: Octave 2.1.70 with cygwin From: "John W. Eaton" To: "Carine Simon" Cc: Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 09:51:55 -0400 On 24-May-2005, Carine Simon wrote: | Thanks for your help John. I've finally installed more packages for | cygwin like tetex and could install everything. The weird thing is I | couldn't make gnuplot worked with the default version of gnuplot for | cygwin. What do you mean that it didn't work? Precisely what was the problem? Did you start X before running Octave? The gnuplot that is distributed with Cygwin requires X to display plots on the screen. | Now, it all works having downloaded gp400win32.zip. That is also an OK solution if you do not need to display multiple figures on the screen at once. | On the other hand, I would be very interested in a chapter explaining a | bit what has been discussed in that list on what and how to install | octave to run fast. Unfortunately, I can't help for that! Why not? jwe ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------