From maintainers-request at octave dot org Fri Jan 27 21:58:40 2006
Subject: "light-weight" build of Octave for Nokia 770
From: "Frederick (Rick) A Niles" <fniles at mitre dot org>
To: maintainers at octave dot org
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 18:46:34 -0600

I got a Nokia 770 about a week ago and I'm really digging it.  It runs
Linux and got all sorts of extra goodies like xterm, ssh, vpnc other fun
stuff.

Anyway, I'd love to put Octave on it as sort of a super-nerd calculator.
The only thing that scares me off is the size of Octave.   Has anyone
done any work on a reduced octave that might not have all the
features?  

Just the RPM for octave weights in at 20MB and that doesn't include all
the dependences. Just liboctinterp.so is 8MB! Anyone out there try for
an octave-lite?  Is this a silly idea?

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BTW, two other things while I've got your attention:

(1) "octave.org" doesn't resolve to "www.octave.org". Me thinks this
should be fixed.

(2) It seems, I never finished implementing dotted and dashed lines in
__pltopt1__.m  However, I tried looking at it after 10 years and I
couldn't quickly figure out the gnuplot syntax.  Anyone else interested
in making it work?  You can look at the code, but basically:
  "--" would be dashed lines
  "-." would be dash-dot lines
  "-:" would be dotted lines.


Thanks,
Rick Niles.