hi,
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 09:25:14PM -0800, Joshua Scholar wrote:
> I installed octave and not only did it not work, but it
> destroyed my installation of cygwin.
>
> Officially, octave supposedly uses a specially built version
> of cygwin that doesn't share registry entries with regular
> cygwin, but that clearly isn't the case. I've been told that
> there is a version of Octave built to run in your preexisting
> cygwin installation so I guess that's what I should have
> installed.
>
> Anyway my point is that Octave is a can of worms with serious
> installation problems.
1. It seems to me that yours is an unfair statement. Octave is
perfectly running in many windows/cygwin and non-windows/cygwin
computers. Sorry to hear that yours is not among them.
2. If you had problems, why not ask for help at the Octave mail
list? So far you posted two short messages late September that
were promptly replied by John W. Eaton (Octave author), who pointed
you to an earlier message (june 2003) with detailed instructions
about installing Octave on Windows machines. Then, you vanished for
good as if your problems were solved, just to reappear in Maxima
mail list complaining about your Octave experience... If your
problem persisted why didn't you contact again the Octave mail
list?
Miquel
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