From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Thu Oct 19 09:51:44 2000 Subject: Bug? From: "John W. Eaton" To: "Karonen, Janne" Cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 09:51:36 -0500 On 19-Oct-2000, Karonen, Janne wrote: | I have installed cygwin-b20 (usertools) in my W98 laptop. I also installed | Octave (2.0.13). After I had installed Octave I couldn't start it because of | missing cygwin19b.dll. I couldn't find this library file from the cygwin | usertools so I got it from the FTP server (?). | | After I got DLL-file in place Octave started and worked well. Until now... | | I have had serious problems to use Octave with Gnuplot3.7. This problem | occurs also with other Octave programmes, such as 'bug_report'! Some times | plotting works well but after couple of plots Octave halts (and exits) with | following error message: | | (C:\OCTAVE\BIN\OCTAVE.BIN 1000) Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION | error: segmentation violation -- stopping myself... | attempting to save variables to 'octave-core'... | save to 'octave-core' complete | | I tried to re-install Octave, but it did not help - the problem persisted. | | I have to admit that I'm not very familiar with cygwin package, but I have | tried to make the installation according to the instructions given by JWE | (Tue May 19 1998). I assume you downloaded the files from the Octave web/ftp site. Those files are obsolete, and I've now deleted them. If you want to install Octave on a Windows system, I suggest you take a look at the information here: http://tech-research.buffalostate.edu/~tom/index.html jwe ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave/octave.html How to fund new projects: http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave/archive.html -----------------------------------------------------------------------