From help-octave-request at che dot utexas dot edu Mon Mar 21 08:13:22 1994 Subject: Help on [maechler: shell_cmd(.) not working -- Please ..] ? From: maechler at stat dot math dot ethz dot ch To: octave Help Mailing List Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 15:13:13 +0100 I sent this a week ago and never ever got an answer --- -- please, I am not on your mailing list, but I'd like to have octave working // help you debug it.. Date: Mon, 14 Mar 94 11:49:29 +0100 From: maechler To: octave Help Mailing List Subject: shell_cmd(.) not working -- Please .. Reply-to: Martin Maechler The last 2.5 days our local mail server software seems to have been bogous. I never received any useful hints on my problem report: SunOS 4.1.2 / 4.1.3 GCC 2.5.8 \ libg++ 2.5.3 \ Make 3.70 > all the newest, just for octave .. Flex 2.4.6 / Sun f77 [not the very newest] ------- PROBLEM: shell_cmd(..) does not work; ==> plot [via gnuplot] fails, too. ------- Here an example: sophie{maechler}353% octave Octave, version 1.0. Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994 John W. Eaton. This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. For details, type `warranty'. octave:1> shell_cmd usage: shell_cmd (string [, return_output]): execute shell commands Additional help for builtin functions, operators, and variables is available in the on-line version of the manual. Use the command `help -i ' to search the manual index. octave:2> shell_cmd("finger") octave:3> shell_cmd("who") octave:4> shell_cmd("pwd") octave:5> pwd ans = /usr/local/etc/octave/octave-1.0 octave:6> quit sophie{maechler}354% ---------------------------------------------------- Would you respond with a CC: to me, since I am not on your list, Please ? Martin Maechler <>< Seminar fuer Statistik, SOL F5 \\ ETH (Federal Inst. Technology) 8092 Zurich SWITZERLAND phone: x-41-1-632-3408 fax : x-41-1-252-3410