Re: Octave/Win32 update

[John W. Eaton]

On 29-Jan-2007, David Bateman wrote:

| All of the packages that replace existing functionality of octave are in
| extra/. These functions are disabled by default at the install stage. I
| didn't check but I believe there is bubble help on each of the install
| menu items and if the information you request isn't already there, then
| it shouldn't be hard to add it..

OK.

I think people need to understand what they are doing when they
install a package like NaN.  That package may provide the behavior
that they want, but it replaces a number of core functions in Octave
with and so could produce surprising results.

jwe