From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Wed Jun 17 09:44:09 1998
Subject: win95 again
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: neuwirth  <neuwirth at smc dot univie dot ac dot at>
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 09:42:56 -0500 (CDT)

On  8-Jun-1998, neuwirth <neuwirth at smc dot univie dot ac dot at> wrote:

| i installed octave 2.0.13 in win95
| and it works.
| 
| BUT
| 
| loading times for m files still are enourmous,
| it takes minutes before such a function is executed.
| 
| i tead the hints about alising drives
| and did a test.
| 
| i put median.m
| in the direcory 
| c:\octace\bin
| where the binary itself resides and
| i set
| LOADPATH="."
| 
| even under these conditions it takes minutes
| before octave executes the function in the m file.

I've only done a small amount of testing on Windows NT/95 systems but
I've never experienced problems like this.  I have no idea what the
trouble might be.  Can someone please try to debug this problem?

Thanks,

jwe