Re: octave on windows 8

[Kai Torben Ohlhus]

On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Francis Poulin <address@hidden> wrote:

Hello,

I am teaching a course where I am encouraging my students to use Octave, instead of the more popular commercial alternative.  I have a student who told me that he installed it on his PC that runs windows 8 but it crashes every time there is an error in the code, which when learning a language happens a lot.  Unfortunately I don't have the details of what he installed.

Do you have any instructions on how to install octave 3.6.4 on windows 8 that avoids the crashes (that the student mentioned others have observed)?

Sorry to be vague but any advice would be helpful.

Cheers, Francis
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Hello Francis,

if your student has trouble using Octave, I can recommend this version http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/problem-running-octave-with-Windows-8-td4657364.html by herraiz. It runs on my Windows 8 without having installed anything else before.

HTH, Kai