From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Fri Dec 15 15:24:15 2000 Subject: Unidentified subject! From: Steve Sullivan To: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu, sullivan@Mathcom.COM Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 14:24:11 -0700 To: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Cc: sullivan Subject: binary ctl- at embedded before the numeric output Bug report for Octave 2.1.32 configured for %OCTAVE_CANONICAL_HOST_TYPE% Description: ----------- First, many thanks for an excellent tool: I use Octave daily! I'm testing 2.1.32, and notice that sometimes the output has a binary ctl- at embedded before the numeric output. While many viewing programs like "less" don't show the ctl- at , when I process the Octave output by other programs they choke. A simple example follows: octave tempa > tempb ========= file tempa ========== delta = .1 amat = [ delta -1] ========= end file tempa ========== ========= file tempb ========== GNU Octave, version 2.1.32 (i686-pc-linux-gnu). Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 John W. Eaton. This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. For details, type `warranty'. *** This is a development version of Octave. Development releases *** are provided for people who want to help test, debug, and improve *** Octave. *** *** If you want a stable, well-tested version of Octave, you should be *** using one of the stable releases (when this development release *** was made, the latest stable version was 2.0.16). delta = 0.10000 amat = ========= end file tempb ========== Note the ctl- at at the start of the last line. Sometimes it's there; sometimes not. If you simply type "octave tempa" you will not see the ctl- at : you must view the output in a good editor ... like emacs :-) Critical details: I'm running RedHat 7.0 Linux on a Pentium: $ uname -a Linux random 2.2.16-22enterprise #1 SMP Tue Aug 22 16:29:32 EDT 2000 i686 unknown $ octave -version GNU Octave, version 2.1.32 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) I compiled Octave using: ./configure --prefix=/home/ss/ftp/gnu/tdi --enable-shared make make install Is there a work-around? Many thanks! Steve Repeat-By: --------- See above. Fix: --- Wish I knew! Configuration (please do not edit this section): ----------------------------------------------- uname output: Linux random 2.2.16-22enterprise #1 SMP Tue Aug 22 16:29:32 EDT 2000 i686 unknown configure opts: --prefix=/home/ss/ftp/gnu/tdi Fortran compiler: g77 FFLAGS: -O F2C: F2CFLAGS: FLIBS: -lg2c -lm -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96 -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/../../.. -lm CPPFLAGS: INCFLAGS: -I. -I. -I./liboctave -I./src -I./libcruft/misc -I./glob -I./glob C compiler: gcc, version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.0) CFLAGS: -g -O2 -Wall CPICFLAG: -fPIC C++ compiler: c++, version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.0) CXXFLAGS: -g -O2 -Wall CXXPICFLAG: -fPIC LDFLAGS: -g LIBFLAGS: -L. RLD_FLAG: -Xlinker -rpath -Xlinker /home/ss/ftp/gnu/tdi/lib/octave-2.1.32 TERMLIBS: -lncurses LIBS: -ldl -lz -lm LEXLIB: LIBPLPLOT: LIBDLFCN: LIBGLOB: ./glob/glob.o ./glob/fnmatch.o DEFS: -DOCTAVE_SOURCE=1 -DSEPCHAR=':' -DSEPCHAR_STR=":" -DUSE_READLINE=1 -D__NO_MATH_INLINES=1 -DCXX_NEW_FRIEND_TEMPLATE_DECL=1 -DHAVE_LIBM=1 -DHAVE_LIBZ=1 -DF77_APPEND_UNDERSCORE=1 -DSIZEOF_SHORT=2 -DSIZEOF_INT=4 -DSIZEOF_LONG=4 -DSIZEOF_LONG_LONG=8 -DHAVE_ALLOCA_H=1 -DHAVE_ALLOCA=1 -DNPOS=std::string::npos -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_DIRENT_H=1 -DTIME_WITH_SYS_TIME=1 -DHAVE_SYS_WAIT_H=1 -DHAVE_ASSERT_H=1 -DHAVE_CURSES_H=1 -DHAVE_DLFCN_H=1 -DHAVE_FCNTL_H=1 -DHAVE_FLOAT_H=1 -DHAVE_FNMATCH_H=1 -DHAVE_GLOB_H=1 -DHAVE_GRP_H=1 -DHAVE_LIMITS_H=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_NCURSES_H=1 -DHAVE_POLL_H=1 -DHAVE_PWD_H=1 -DHAVE_SGTTY_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_IOCTL_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_PARAM_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_POLL_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_RESOURCE_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_SELECT_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TIME_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TIMES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_UTSNAME_H=1 -DHAVE_TERMCAP_H=1 -DHAVE_TERMIO_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_VARARGS_H=1 -DHAVE_ATEXIT=1 -DHAVE_BCOPY=1 -DHAVE_BZERO=1 -DHAVE_DUP2=1 -DHAVE_ENDGRENT=1 -DHAVE_ENDPWENT=1 -DHAVE_EXECVP=1 -DHAVE_FCNTL=1 -DHAVE_FORK=1 -DHAVE_GETCWD=1 -DHAVE_GETEGID=1 -DHAVE_GETEUID=1 -DHAVE_GETGID=1 -DHAVE_GETGRENT=1 -DHAVE_GETGRGID=1 -DHAVE_GETGRNAM=1 -DHAVE_GETHOSTNAME=1 -DHAVE_GETPGRP=1 -DHAVE_GETPID=1 -DHAVE_GETPPID=1 -DHAVE_GETPWENT=1 -DHAVE_GETPWNAM=1 -DHAVE_GETPWUID=1 -DHAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY=1 -DHAVE_GETUID=1 -DHAVE_GETWD=1 -DHAVE_LINK=1 -DHAVE_LOCALTIME_R=1 -DHAVE_LSTAT=1 -DHAVE_MEMMOVE=1 -DHAVE_MKDIR=1 -DHAVE_MKFIFO=1 -DHAVE_ON_EXIT=1 -DHAVE_PIPE=1 -DHAVE_POLL=1 -DHAVE_PUTENV=1 -DHAVE_READLINK=1 -DHAVE_RENAME=1 -DHAVE_RINDEX=1 -DHAVE_RMDIR=1 -DHAVE_SELECT=1 -DHAVE_SETGRENT=1 -DHAVE_SETPWENT=1 -DHAVE_SETVBUF=1 -DHAVE_SIGACTION=1 -DHAVE_SIGPENDING=1 -DHAVE_SIGPROCMASK=1 -DHAVE_SIGSUSPEND=1 -DHAVE_STAT=1 -DHAVE_STRCASECMP=1 -DHAVE_STRDUP=1 -DHAVE_STRERROR=1 -DHAVE_STRFTIME=1 -DHAVE_STRNCASECMP=1 -DHAVE_STRPTIME=1 -DHAVE_SYMLINK=1 -DHAVE_TEMPNAM=1 -DHAVE_UMASK=1 -DHAVE_UNLINK=1 -DHAVE_USLEEP=1 -DHAVE_VFPRINTF=1 -DHAVE_VSPRINTF=1 -DHAVE_VSNPRINTF=1 -DHAVE_WAITPID=1 -DHAVE_LIBDL=1 -DHAVE_DLOPEN=1 -DHAVE_DLSYM=1 -DHAVE_DLERROR=1 -DHAVE_DLCLOSE=1 -DWITH_DL=1 -DWITH_DYNAMIC_LINKING=1 -DHAVE_TIMEVAL=1 -DHAVE_FINITE=1 -DHAVE_ISNAN=1 -DHAVE_ISINF=1 -DHAVE_ACOSH=1 -DHAVE_ASINH=1 -DHAVE_ATANH=1 -DHAVE_ERF=1 -DHAVE_ERFC=1 -DHAVE_ST_BLKSIZE=1 -DHAVE_ST_BLOCKS=1 -DHAVE_ST_RDEV=1 -DHAVE_TM_ZONE=1 -DHAVE_GR_PASSWD=1 -DEXCEPTION_IN_MATH=1 -DRETSIGTYPE=void -DSYS_SIGLIST_DECLARED=1 -DHAVE_SYS_SIGLIST=1 -DHAVE_POSIX_SIGNALS=1 -DHAVE_GETRUSAGE=1 -DHAVE_TIMES=1 -DGNUPLOT_HAS_MULTIPLOT=1 -DGNUPLOT_HAS_FRAMES=1 User-preferences (please do not edit this section): -------------------------------------------------- EDITOR = "emacs" EXEC_PATH = ":/home/ss/ftp/java/sun/cur/tdi/jdk1.3/bin:/home/ss/cmd:/home/ss/bin:/home/sjs/bin:/home/pkg/bin:/home/ss/ftp/gnu/tdi/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/ss/ftp/emacs/mew/tda/bin:/home/ss/ftp/emacs/mew/tdb/im-130:/home/postgres/pgsql/bin:/home/ss/ftp/cvs/tdi/bin:/home/ss/ftp/apache/cur/jakarta/tdtomcat/jakarta-ant/bin" IMAGEPATH = ".:/home/ss/ftp/gnu/tdi/share/octave/2.1.32/imagelib//" INFO_FILE = "/home/ss/ftp/gnu/tdi/info/octave.info" INFO_PROGRAM = "info" LOADPATH = ":" PAGER = "less" PS1 = "\\s:\\#> " PS2 = "> " PS4 = "+ " automatic_replot = 0 beep_on_error = 0 completion_append_char = " " default_eval_print_flag = 1 # 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