Video adapter problems

[John W. Eaton]

On 14-Sep-2005, address@hidden wrote:

| I am teaching a junior-level engineering course using Octave, and my
| students have installed Octave on their (mostly) Windows machines.
| 
| A number of them are reporting a problem with the Octave display on
| Windows machines. It seems that a vertical line character (i.e., |) is
| placed between each of the characters displayed. Functionality does not
| seem impaired, but the display is difficult to read.
| 
| A brief poll indiated that most of the affected students had Dell
| machines, which makes me think that it may be related to a specific brand
| or model of video adapter.
| 
| Two questions:
| 
| 1. Has anyone else experienced this?
| 2. Any suggestions concerning a fix?

Yes.  See for example

  http://www.octave.org/octave-lists/archive/help-octave.2003/msg00597.html

BTW, what version of Octave are you using?

The current recommended version of Octave for Windows is 2.1.71,
installed from cygwin.com.

jwe



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