problem using bash to ./install-octave in window?

[John W. Eaton]

On  2-Mar-2000, eric <address@hidden> wrote:

| Dear octave installer on window platform:
| 
|     
ftp://ftp.che.wisc.edu/pub/octave/BINARIES/gnu-win32/README.gnu-win32-install
| 
|    do the command ./install-octave (running bash)
| 
| I double click bash in cygnus/b19/bin/
| then cd to /gnuwin32/b19/octave-2.0.13-i386-pc-cygwin32
| to do ./install-octave
| but I got
| ./install-octave: No such file or directory
| 
| I also tried /gnuwin32/b19/bin/sh install-octave
| I just recieve a window dialog show not working
| 
| need and thanks your help on installing octave in window platform

I'd guess that the file which is not found is `/bin/sh'.  Did you put
a copy of bash in c:\bin with the name sh.exe?

jwe



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