RE: request recommendations for using octave with windows

[Ryan Peterson]

As a seasoned plug 'n play windows user and a novice linux user I found Paul 
Soderlind's install instructions for windows to be very straightforward and 
(as a bonus) up to date!  The page is available here:

http://home.tiscalinet.ch/paulsoderlind/Software/Software.html#OctaveInstallation

There are three levels of complexity for the install he suggests - the first 
and easiest of which - the executable install program doesn't support N-d 
matrices.  I helped write a chapter in a text about  octave (though that was 
before N-d matrix support) in undergrad computational physics.  If you're 
interested I could dig up the digital copy.
Good luck,
Ryan Peterson

> From: Michael Creel <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: request recommendations for using octave with windows
> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 09:49:21 +0100
>
> Hello all,
> I'm going to be teaching a class soon, and I'm going to have the students 
> use
> Octave. Most of them are Windows users. I'll offer the possibility to use a
> Knoppix remaster to run Octave on Linux, but I imagine that most will 
> prefer
> to use Windows. So I need to install Octave on some windows machines. I 
> need
> Octave, any version from 2.1.57 or later, and a corresponding octave-forge. 
> I
> don't really care too much about performance, but I would like to avoid
> surprises like the ascii save/load problem mentioned recently. Also, I've
> seen a number of offerings of windows versions, but I haven't paid close
> attention. Can people offer recommendations about which packages are 
> easiest
> to install and offer the most Linux-like functionality? TIA, Michael
>
>
>
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Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL.

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How to fund new projects:  http://www.octave.org/funding.html
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