Re: octave on windows 8

[marco atzeri]

Il 8/9/2013 1:29 PM, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen ha scritto:
> Hello!
>
> I will shortly start (to teach) a calculus course where use of
> octave/matlab will be included.
> The students will mainly be using their own computers, and (sadly)
> most of them will bring windows computers, many of the computers new,
> so with windows 8.
>
> Is there good solutions to use octave with windows 8?, as I have heard
> that do not work?  So long I do not have access to a computer with
> windows 8, so cannot try!
>
> Thanks, Kjetil

It works.

http://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_Windows#Octave-3.6.4-mingw_.2B_octaveforge_pkgs

see "Manual installation instructions note 3":

Note for windows 8 users: As a workaround for a gnulib windows 8 
compatibility bug, add command line switches ' -i --line-editing' to the 
octave.exe shortcut

Regards
Marco