From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Tue May 29 19:47:23 2001 Subject: RE: Urgent: about your win9x link From: "Julian A. de Marchi, Ph.D" To: "Ladislav Kocbach" , Cc: "Ladislav Kocbach" Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 20:47:18 -0400 mea culpa. uncle already. -----Original Message----- From: bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu [mailto:bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu]On Behalf Of Ladislav Kocbach Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 8:31 PM To: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Cc: Ladislav Kocbach Subject: Urgent: about your win9x link This concerns the link to http://sourceforge.net/projects/matlinks at octave's download page http://www.octave.org/download.html It states: An easy-to-install Windows binary is available from sourceforge.net/projects/matlinks. THIS IS NOT TRUE. THEIR VERSION DOES NOT INSTALL AT ALL. The ready made version (easy-to-install) with installer crashes silently and wipes octave.tar.gz out silently, leaving a minimal subset of cygwin (strangely configured) and a workable wgnuplot on the machine. I would like to ask you to modify the statement to: EXPERIMENTAL VERSION OF Windows binary is available from sourceforge.net/projects/matlinks. I managed to install octave on one of mine win98 machines, using their zipped file set, but have still some problems with the gnuplot pipes. The problem seems to be that they have tested the installation only on machines which did have cygwin preinstalled. The installation script calls gnu utilities which cannot be found at the moment of installation. I will naturally contact people at sourceforge.net/projects/matlinks Below I include their mail-archive entry, showing that at least two persons run into the same problems as I did. Thank you for all the marvelous work you are doing! Yours Ladislav Kocbach -------------------------------------------------------------- L. Kocbach Dept. of Physics, U of Bergen, Allegaten 55, N-5007 Bergen, Norway -------------------------------------------------------------- Phone : +47 55 58 28 70 Fax : +47 55 58 94 40 -------------------------------------------------------------- MAIL: ladi at post dot fi dot uib dot no WEB: http://www.fi.uib.no/~ladi/ -------------------------------------------------------------- http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=312191&group_id=5882 &atid=205882 Date: 2001-02-22 11:20 Sender: nobody Logged In: NO Browser: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98) I have exactly the same problems as Juan (Date: 2001-Jan-18 04:55 Sender: jamendez). Any help would be appreciated! Ralf dot Blendowske at fh-aalen dot de Date: 2001-01-18 04:55 I Installed the Octave for Windows 98. There is a octave.bat that should start the octave. However, it doesn´t work. The content of the octave.bat file is cd "119 18/01/01 9:41 Directory.bat\bin" if not exist \tmp\nul mkdir \tmp bash --login start rd \tmp The line "cd ..." doesn´t work. When I execute, bash --login start. It says "bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!" Then I create the directory /tmp and the message does not appear anymore and the shell is started. It seems that a window appears only for a while and then dissapears and nothing happens. Could you please tell me what is the exact procedure to run octave?. Thanks in advance Juan A. Mendez University of La Laguna SPAIN ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------