I had some troubles a year or two back with the Octave installer, so I went to "The Hard Way" installation procedure outlined in the attached link. I have had no problems with this, and Octave works fine through Cygwin.
http://web.hhs.se/personal/Psoderlind/Software/Software.htm Note I did say use the instructions under "The Hard Way". Not "The Easy Way". By the way, you might also want to check out Scilab. http://www-rocq.inria.fr/scilab/ Wayne Keen -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/