Appendix E Installing Octave

[Michael Goffioul]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Frigyes Reisch
<frigyes.reisch at fatburen.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In the Manual there is a Chapter called Appendix E Installing Octave, the
> first line is :"Here is the procedure for installing Octave from scratch on
> a Unix system". Like most people I have Windows XP Professionel,

That's a statement you shouldn't make on a mailing list devoted
to a GNU project, where most developers (and probably most
users too) do *not* use Windows :-)

> I am
> totally new to Octave and I have great difficulties to deal with it. I get
> the consol version and made all the "1.2 Simple Examples" there. However
> when I go over to the text version - what I need to work with - in the menu
> "run" is not enlighten. Where can I find the installing instructions for
> Windows XP Professionel?

The "Text version" as you call it is simply a text editor, with some
syntax highlighting predefined for m-code. You can also directly
edit a file from the octave prompt by using the "edit" command.
But that's all you can expect from it. It is not an integrated octave
environment.

Michael.