From help-request at octave dot org Thu Mar 17 10:21:31 2005
Subject: Re: Re: plot.m syntax error
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: "Corbin Champion" <corbinchampion at hotmail dot com>
Cc: help at octave dot org
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 11:28:31 -0500

On 17-Mar-2005, Corbin Champion <corbinchampion at hotmail dot com> wrote:

| I think it must have been a bad choice to pick up 2.9.0 when I am 
| so new at octave.

Yes, so why did you choose that?  On the download page at
www.octave.org, it is clearly marked as the development version, which
is explained to be

    The most recent snapshot of the development sources.  Use this if
    you want the latest features and it doesn't bother you that you
    might run into a few problems (if you do, please report them).  If
    you are interested in up-to-the-minute changes, you may use the
    sources from the public CVS archive instead (see below for
    details).

I would recommend installing 2.1.67 instead (which is why the download
page on the web lists that version as the "testing (you probably want
this)" version.

jwe



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