Octave now up and running on a Mac

[wdflannery]

Yep, the student was expecting a GUI, I guess. 

My first reaction was ... how could anyone be such a blockhead as to miss the prompt ......

But, then I remembered exactly the same thing happened to me when I installed Octave on a XP machine.  I got a dos window and figured I needed help.  So I posted a msg on the google octave group ... reinstalled ... this time saying I wanted a GUI .... and it worked .... I now think I could have gone with the dos window ...

In any case .....all's well that ends well.

Thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Sent: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 1:46 pm
Subject: Re: Still trying to get Octave up on a Mac ...

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 03:44:52PM -0400, address@hidden wrote:  >  I thought we had succeeded when I received the in bold below..  >   >   >   > However, I sent an email asking if this bold email meant all was well and   received this reply (in italics) ......  >   >   >   > > Sorry, No. Can you ask the octave group how to proceed with the   > result I sent you It came on the Terminal on my PowerMac.I do not know   > or use the Terminal.?  >   >   > > Thank you   Paul     <SNIP>    >   > octave-3.0.0:1>                   This is the prompt of the program and there you type your commands so  he does have a working system up and running it seems, or did he expect a  GUI?    Oli  _______________________________________________  Help-octave mailing list  address@hidden  https://www.cae.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/help-octave  

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