From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Hansen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Octave Help Mode? Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:28:08 +0200 Organization: disorganized Message-ID: <87lk3fcf3r.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1208275669 16731 80.91.229.12 (15 Apr 2008 16:07:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:07:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 15 18:08:21 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 1JlnFl-0005Gj-5H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:39:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JlnF6-0006Cy-JF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:38:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JlnEm-0006AZ-8X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:38:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JlnEk-000671-Jb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:38:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JlnEk-00066f-AU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:38:22 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JlnEj-00043m-Pj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:38:22 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JlnEg-0004Av-AA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:38:18 +0000 Original-Received: from e178020046.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.20.46]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:38:18 +0000 Original-Received: from david.hansen by e178020046.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:38:18 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e178020046.adsl.alicedsl.de Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110009 (No Gnus v0.9) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:qAy17z4GlrxrYG/oz+RvcKsEP0A= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:53308 Archived-At: On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:32:43 +0200 Christian Herenz wrote: > This is acutally what happens on the debian-machine I occasionally > have to work on. But it seems, that sarge ships a rather old version > of octave: GNU Octave, version 2.1.73. So would be nice, if a sarge > user could report on this issue? No, I'm running unstable. > 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