Re: Octave Help Mode?

[Richard G Riley]

Christian Herenz <herenz@physik.hu-berlin.de> writes:

> David Hansen schrieb:
>
>>> I would contact the sysadmin at our university, but it seems that they
>>> are playing a little bit the devils-advocate by promoting heavily
>>> Matlab (they won't give me full points, cause I solve my exercises in
>>> octave-code rather than with matlab (even pointing out the
>>> differences)... really pi**** about this atm, but this NEEDS to be
>>> discussed somewhere else (hints?))
>>
>> If you don't have fascist disc quota:
>>
>> ./configure --prefix=$HOME && make && make install
>>
>> David
>>
>
> That is a nice idea, but would not solve my problem that I was
> actually forced to hand in the results with matlab, otherwise I was
> told today by a professor my results would not be accepted. But I am
> working on this issue right now, cause my course is called
> "Computational Physics" not "Computational Physics with Matlab".
>
> Greets,
> Christian

Why on earth do you feel that your Professor should master every
application out there that a student might feel is his right to use? Did
it cross your mind that he does not have the skill in Octave that you
have?