From bug-request at octave dot org Mon Jun  7 08:55:19 2004
Subject: Re: Prompt line only exceeds 6 signs
From: Stefan Petersen <stefan dot petersen at tu-berlin dot de>
To: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 11:58:08 +0200

Am Donnerstag, 3. Juni 2004 15:41 schrieben Sie:
> On  3-Jun-2004, Stefan Petersen <stefan dot petersen at tu-berlin dot de> wrote:
> | Hello,
> | i want to report a problem which make my koctave really unuseable. The
> | promt line does not allow any promts longer then 6 sings. Of course this
> | stops the posibility of using the program. May you helb me? The running
> | system ist Suse 9.0 and kOctave, octave and octave-forge are the new ones
> | which are availible at this time.
> | In regards of an answer
> |
> | Stefan Petersen
>
> Can you please submit a complete bug report?  If you are not sure what
> to include so that your report is useful, please read
> http://www.octave.org/bugs.html first.
>
> Thanks,
>
> jwe

Hopefully this may help:

kOktave
Version: 0.65(KDE 3.1.4)(Suse)
OS: Linux(i686)release 2.4.21-215-default
Compiler: gcc version 3.3.1(SuSE Linux)

copy of prompt:

Report bugs to <bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>.

octave:2> a=2*5
a = 10
10tave:3> a=2*5+
a = 20    a=
 3;4 5 6] a=[1 2
octave:5>

The first line is very well, but of course not very long. I made the programm 
going a little further in next promt line(octave3) where its starts to get 
difficult to read the prompt-even a prompt which is really easy. Third line 
is crazy and the last one where you could imagine whats up. But really fine 
comes up now (which are promts 6 and 7)

*sin(a^2)/cos(a)
> in(a^2)/cos(a)

When i typed it, it has been 	(octave6):	a=0:0.1:6;
						(octave7):	plot (2*sin(a^2)/cos(a))

There is at all total funcionality of mathematics in octave and the prompts 
come to there destination, but you may imagine that it is hard to go right if 
you do have no  possiblity to check the promts.
Thanks a lot for helping
Stefan



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