A trial Cygwin packaging of octave-forge-2005.05.06 is available at ftp://antiskid.homelinux.net/pub/octave-forge
The octave-forge project, at http://octave.sourceforge.net contains over 500 contributed functions for GNU Octave which are not in the main distribution. This Cygwin package also incorporates the octave m-files from the octave-ci collection. octave-forge-2005.05.05-1 requires the recently announced Cygwin octave-2.1.71-1 package, so you will want to wait until you can install that from a Cygwin mirror via setup.exe. Files available: octave-forge-2005.05.06-1.tar.bz2 octave-forge-2005.05.06-1-src.tar.bz2 setup.hint To install without benefit of setup.exe, use tar -C / -xjf octave-forge-2005.05.06-1.tar.bz2 Not all files from octave-forge are included in the package; in particular those labeled non-free were not compiled. Comments on whether more of the octave-forge files could be usefully included are requested. Please use an ftp client that does not invoke the PASV command, as my ftp server currently can't support it. Command line ftp and i.e. work well. Regards, Jim Phillips
