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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!moe!donews!sacsa3.mp.usbr.gov!csus.edu!netcom.com!netcom4!ceb From: ceb@netcom4.netcom.com (Buckley) Subject: Re: Has octave been ported to NetBSD? In-Reply-To: roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net's message of 18 Nov 1993 14:17:44 +0100 Message-ID: <CEB.93Nov20063801@netcom4.netcom.com> Sender: ceb@netcom.com (Buckley) Organization: Mauto, Palo Alto References: <2c9k2i$e5j@mtu.edu> <2cfsm6$hr@keltia.frmug.fr.net> Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1993 14:38:01 GMT Lines: 21 In article <2cfsm6$hr@keltia.frmug.fr.net> roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) writes: From: roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions In article <2c9k2i$e5j@mtu.edu>, CHEN <pchen@mtu.edu> wrote: >The title says all. Octave (and f2c) have been ported under FreeBSD as ready-to-install sources and binary packages. I suspect they'll run as fine under NetBSD. Yes, but that's for octave 0.74. John Eaton (the author) just told me that 0.79 is out, and is significantly improved. I just got 0.79, but don't know when I'll get to the port -- any one want to beat me to it? (It'd be like racing a turtle with arthritis, but some people on this list seem to be into that sort of thing . . .) --