Cygwin install is going great

[Mike Miller]

I just installed the entire Cygwin package on Win XP (32 bit) and sure 
enough, Octave 2.1.71 was there as was Octave-Forge, and both seem to be 
working fine.  I fired up X and ran a plot command -- Gnuplot appeared and 
displayed my graph.

After installing Cygwin, Octave "just worked."  To get plot to work I only 
had to make a ~/.xinitrc and run xinit before running a plot command. 
Thus, an absolutely minimal amount of work is required from the user.

I know it wasn't always this easy.  I want to recognize that things are 
working great now and I want to thank everyone who contributed to getting 
the Cygwin version of Octave and Octave-Forge up and running.  Thanks!

Mike

P.S.  I also tried the same thing on Win XP x64 and it failed.  This is 
because of a Cygwin problem though and not an Octave problem, but if any 
of you have managed to get Cygwin running under x64, I would like to hear 
how you did it!  Thanks.

--
Michael B. Miller, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
and Institute of Human Genetics
University of Minnesota
http://taxa.epi.umn.edu/~mbmiller/



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