From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Sep 11 11:21:12 1997
Subject: cannot enter a large matric - line size limitations?
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: sshteingold at cctrading dot com
Cc: <bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 11:20:55 -0500

On 11-Sep-1997, sshteingold at cctrading dot com <sshteingold@cctrading.com> wrote:

|      I have a 10x10 matrix (in a file) and I cannot set an octave variable 
|      to it. I can do
|      octave> A=[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10;1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10; etc...
|      and get a 10x10 matrix, but I cannot use the actual numbers I have.
|      I can enter 7 lines and get a 10x7 matrix fine, and I can enter the 
|      8th line separately, but if I try to enter all 10 lines or just the 
|      first 8 of them, I fail - without any error message. Octave doesn't 
|      print anything, it just returns a prompt and A is empty (A <enter> 
|      gives no response from octave at all!).
|      Apparently my numbers - ranging from 1000 to 0.001 - take up too much 
|      space on the line? Or there are some other limitations?

No, there are no such limitations built in to Octave.

There may be a bug here but it is difficult to tell.  Can you please
send a precise test case so that someone can attempt to reproduce the
problem?

Thanks,

jwe