Can an octave expert please comment on / investigate the 'pkg install ' issue raised in the original e-mail. I sent in a similar observation to this forum a few days ago.
I believe the 'pkg install ...' problem is the manifestation of some sort this is a bug in the sourceforge windows installer on the Vista OS.
BZ
>
> I just installed Octave 3.2.0 and I'm running Windows Vista. I dowloaded the Control Toolbox
> package named: control-1.0.11.tar.tar
>
> However, I was informed (perhaps incorrectly) that Windows cannot handle *.tar.tar files
> properly & that I should change the second extension to 'gz':
> control-1.0.11.tar.gz
>
> Next, I attempted to install the package by entering the following command in Octave:
>
> pkg install control-1.0.11.tar.gz
>
> The result was the following error:
>
> "error: memory exhausted or requested size too large for range of Octave's index type--trying to
> return to prompt"
>
> I have over 90 GB free on my hard drive and about 1 GB of available RAM, so I'm inclined to
> think that neither are the problem.
>
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> John
