From help-request at octave dot org Tue Feb 8 12:41:18 2005 Subject: Re: 2 linear eq From: "Henry F. Mollet" To: Octave_post Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 10:51:50 -0800 Exactly, When I installed my first archived program, I was supposed to put the drivers into the Preference folder. There were 3 little car icons among others after "de-archiving". It took me a day to figure out that the little cars must be the drivers. I would have gotten an answer quickly on the Octave help-list. Henry on 2/7/05 10:07 PM, Paul Thomas at paulthomas2 at wanadoo dot fr wrote: >>> Is his "octave help"? I think we can be friendly even when people ask >>> stupid questions. Let's allow people who don't know any math and have >>> never used octave before to come here and ask questions. Where else can >>> they go? If they bug you, don't answer. > > Exactly! By the way, I think that we all forget, at our peril, the > conceptual hump that we all got over with octave/matlab. The conciseness of > the language, which is so much its attraction, is very difficult for people > that have no programming training or were brought up on fortran/C. Looking > back at my own notes, I am just embarrassed at my early attempts (- some say > that I should still be embarrassed.....!). > > Let's just get on with helping Shih Lin to where he wants to be. > > Paul T > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------