Re: 4.2.0-rc4 candidate available for testing

[Rik]

On 11/09/2016 05:13 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>> On Nov 9, 2016, at 6:39 PM, Rik <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> 11/9/16
>>
>> The final release candidate for the 4.2.0 version of Octave has been
>> uploaded to ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/octave/.
>>
>> Please download, build, and then run 'make check' (Linux, Mac) or
>> '__run_test_suite__' (Windows) to see how the new version performs.
>>
>> I tested octave-4.2.0-rc4.tar.lz on Ubuntu 15.04 and it passed with zero
>> failures.
>>
>> I tested octave-4.2.0-rc4-w32-installer.exe on a Windows XP virtual machine
>> and it passed with zero failures as well.
>>
>> —Rik
> Rik / anyone,
>
> What is the program needed to decompress an lz-file?
>
> Ben
>
>
>
lzip.  But try

tar xf octave-4.2.0-rc4.tar.lz

and just see if it works.