Here's my fourth Windows XP post. Again, the goal is primarily to get Gnuplot and Octave working on Windows, together with sed, gawk and other tools for data processing. Anita Blake The Killing Dance Pdf Writer. In this post that's done using cygwin on windows XP. This is (in my opinion) a better alternative to installing the native gnuplot and octave packages (posts,, ), especially as Octave in post 350 takes well over a minute to start, but only a few seconds through cygwin. Download and run it.

Set it to install from the internet, with c: cygwin as the root directory. Pick a mirror which is reasonably close (e.g. Mirror.aarnet.edu.au in Australia). You're now asked to select packages. Select octave (search for octave, click on 'skip' to change it to the version number), octave-forge, gnuplot, xinit and xorg-server. If you're new to the whole *NIX thing, nano is a simple editor which is easy to get started with.

Vim (or vi) has a bit steeper learning curve, but is surprisingly powerful. It's especially useful if you're going to be processing data. Another reason to learn it is that it's available on just about any imaginable NIX system (and stripped down ones, like busybox). Emacs is also powerful, but I've never really warmed to it. It feels.bloated and un-unix like ('do one thing, and do it well').

Gedit, which is a bit more like notepad but more powerful, is another option. It's using X though.

Installing Octave in Windows. The easiest way to install Octave in Windows is through Cygwin, a large collection of open source programs. Each program in the.