Only if you're interested in doing any of the following, personally I doubt it - nothing to do with GnuCash....
Cheers David H. About GNU Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for performing other numerical experiments using a language that is mostly compatible with Matlab. It may also be used as a batch-oriented language. Octave has extensive tools for solving common numerical linear algebra problems, finding the roots of nonlinear equations, integrating ordinary functions, manipulating polynomials, and integrating ordinary differential and differential-algebraic equations. It is easily extensible and customizable via user-defined functions written in Octave’s own language, or using dynamically loaded modules written in C++, C, Fortran, or other languages. GNU Octave is also freely redistributable software. You may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) <https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html> as published by the Free Software Foundation <https://www.fsf.org/>. Octave was written by John W. Eaton <j...@octave.org> and many others <https://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/tip/doc/interpreter/contributors.in>. Because Octave is free software <https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html> you are encouraged to help make Octave more useful by writing and contributing additional functions for it, and by reporting any problems you may have. On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 at 11:02, laurel hargis <ldbhar...@gmail.com> wrote: > I found octave 5.2 download installed. Should I have it? It’s a large > file. > > Thank you > Laurel > > On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 1:00 PM laurel hargis <ldbhar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I have uninstalled and reinstalled and get exactly the same error > message. > > > > Microsoft couldn’t figure out and they have escalated up the chain. I > > should get a call from them again tomorrow morning. I will educate > myself > > on the links I was sent by David previously regarding gnu files. > > > > I’ve had 2 separate IT people in my system making sure all is well, so > > doesn’t seem to be a problem with my computer. > > > > Thank you > > Laurel > > > > On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 11:05 PM David Cousens <davidcous...@bigpond.com > > > > wrote: > > > >> Laurel > >> > >> Uninstalling the app should not affect your financial data files (or > even > >> the user preference files). They are totally separate from the actual > >> program files. The first will be stored in whatever location you chose > in > >> your user home directory when you first created them and the preference > >> files are also in a separate location. The Gnucash guide section on > >> migrating files > >> > >> > https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-guide/basics-migrate-settings.html > >> discusses file locations and more information on the configuration files > >> is > >> given in the wiki https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations > . > >> > >> David > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> ----- > >> David Cousens > >> -- > >> Sent from: > >> http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html > >> _______________________________________________ > >> gnucash-user mailing list > >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org > >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > >> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > >> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > >> ----- > >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > >> > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.