From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Octave Help Mode? Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:37:50 +0200 Message-ID: <4804F5FE.9090803@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1208285138 26410 80.91.229.12 (15 Apr 2008 18:45:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:45:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Richard G Riley Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 15 20:46:07 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jlq3T-0007HY-8v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:38:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jlq2o-00030z-OV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:38:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jlq2Y-00030u-Eb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:37:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jlq2W-00030i-1i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:37:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jlq2V-00030f-TE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:37:55 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jlq2V-0001s5-7N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:37:55 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-150-27.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.150.27]:63933 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1Jlq2T-0005dn-5N; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:37:54 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080415-1, 2008-04-15), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.150.27 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1Jlq2T-0005dn-5N. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1Jlq2T-0005dn-5N c7aab682b9a5dbaaa869757a396eb61e X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:53312 Archived-At: Richard G Riley wrote: > Christian Herenz writes: > >> David Hansen schrieb: >> >>>> I would contact the sysadmin at our university, but it seems that they >>>> are playing a little bit the devils-advocate by promoting heavily >>>> Matlab (they won't give me full points, cause I solve my exercises in >>>> octave-code rather than with matlab (even pointing out the >>>> differences)... really pi**** about this atm, but this NEEDS to be >>>> discussed somewhere else (hints?)) >>> If you don't have fascist disc quota: >>> >>> ./configure --prefix=$HOME && make && make install >>> >>> David >>> >> That is a nice idea, but would not solve my problem that I was >> actually forced to hand in the results with matlab, otherwise I was >> told today by a professor my results would not be accepted. But I am >> working on this issue right now, cause my course is called >> "Computational Physics" not "Computational Physics with Matlab". >> >> Greets, >> Christian > > Why on earth do you feel that your Professor should master every > application out there that a student might feel is his right to use? Did > it cross your mind that he does not have the skill in Octave that you > have? Christian, I agree with Richard. Most professors I have seen are human beeing with adequate limitations in their capabilities. But you do not have to give up on using Octave for that. Can't you for example talk to your fellow students to see if you as a group can ask the institution about the possibility to use Octave instead of Mathlab? Then some professor might get time to learn Octave enough. To convince them you might have to learn some Matchlab and Scilab too ... ;-)