Windows install

[Ben Abbott]

On Tuesday, September 09, 2008, at 01:41PM, "Ben Abbott" <bpabbott at mac.com> wrote:
>On Tuesday, September 09, 2008, at 12:36PM, "Thomas L. Scofield" <scofield at calvin.edu> wrote:
>> Here is what one student  
>>wrote:
>>
>>      I did end up completing the install last night with every  
>>option available (I was not able
>>      to select some as they were blocked/would not allow a 'check  
>>mark').  I then restarted
>>      my computer and tried the Octave program.  When opening, all  
>>that was displayed were
>>      some lines of command/information regarding the program.  I hit  
>>enter, and tried typing
>>      but only some type of source code involving Octave 3.0.1 appeared.
>>
>
>My wild guess is that everything is working as expected and that the student in question is unaccustomed to a command line program.
>
>Perhaps a picture showing "only some type of source code involving Octave 3.0.1" would help clarify?
>
>Ben

Thomas,

Perhaps you might check with your student if what is below is what qualifies as "some type of source code"?

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GNU Octave, version 3.0.1
Copyright (C) 2008 John W. Eaton and others.
This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTIBILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  For details, type `warranty'.

Octave was configured for "powerpc-apple-darwin9.4.0".

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