From owner-help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Tue Feb 4 20:13:28 1997 Subject: install script problem with OS/2 version From: "Wonkoo Kim" To: "Octave Users" Date: Tue, 04 Feb 97 20:41:10 -0500 I just got octave 2.02 from Hobbes.nmsu.edu. However, its installaion script inst-octave.cmd is almost unusable for me. inst-octave.cmd has many problems that - it failed to parse config.sys line if it start with blank spaces. - it stopped with just blank screen during installation without message (I know why. It was when prompting for a user input, but stdio was redirected to NUL in the .cmd script. Removing screen log messages during installation seems to be not a good idea.) - it tried to delete octave\* files (I unpacked under \math\octave\) - unzip needs '-o' option. (I unpacked package over old octave dir.) - Even if config.sys had correct settings, it created new config.sys but with wrong duplicated octave paths. - it assumes that INFOPATH is a single path and ends with '/', but this assumption is wrong. (e.g. INFOPATH=.;d:/lib/gnuinfo) - I touched .cmd here and there, but it still wasn't perfect. I didn't bother myself more with this script and decided to go for manual installation. Anyway, I thank Klaus Gebhardt for this OS/2 version. A question: --------------- G:\tmp>octave Octave 2.0.2 for OS/2 2.x and Warp. (Patchlevel 2.02-b01). Copyright (C) 1996 John W. Eaton. OS/2-Port by Klaus Gebhardt, 1996 - 1997. This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. For details, type `warranty'. error: No such file or directory octave:1> ----------------- Why do I have "error: No such ..." line in the above? (Where is the proper place for octaverc? I had it in octave\scripts\startup\, but copying it to .octaverc or to HOME dir didn't remove the error message. However octave is working well.) //-------------------------------------------------------------------- // Wonkoo Kim (wkim+ at pitt dot edu)