From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Tue Jun 23 00:28:15 1998
Subject: win95 install
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Erich Neuwirth <neuwirth at smc dot univie dot ac dot at>
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 00:26:51 -0500 (CDT)

On  7-Jun-1998, Erich Neuwirth <neuwirth at smc dot univie dot ac dot at> wrote:

| i am experiencing problems when installing the gnuwin32 version
| of octave 2.0.13
| 
| i followed the instructions and
| did a setup to the default directories.
| 
| the binary now works.
| but it cannot find the m files.
| 
| here is what i get for LOADPATH
| 
| octave.exe:1> LOADPATH
| LOADPATH =
| .:/octave/libexec/octave/site/oct/i386-pc-cygwin32//:/octave/share/oc
| tave/site/m//:/octave/libexec/octave/2.0.13/oct/i386-pc-cygwin32//:/octave/share
| /octave/2.0.13/m//
| octave.exe:2>
| 
| 
| additionally, during the installation
| 
| xargs crashed once,
| but the installation continued.

That sounds like a bug.  Can you please send a more detailed bug
report to bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu?  If it really is a problem
with xargs on gnu-win32 systems, and not a problem with the way the
Octave installation scripts call xargs, can you please submit a bug
report to the gnu-win32 project?

| final question:
| 
| 
| bin contained
| octave.bin
| 
| but NOT octave.exe
| 
| is this the way of working.
| 
| when i renamed octave.bin to octave.exe
| i could start it.
| 
| what am i supposed to do about this?

The bin directory should have also contained a shell script called
`octave' that you can run from a bash shell window.  If not, renaming
the binary should work fine as long as you installed Octave in the
default directory tree (i.e., /octave/...).  Otherwise, some
environment variables will need to be set in order for Octave to run
correctly.

jwe