From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Fri Jan 29 13:36:01 1999
Subject: Re: Problems installing Octave under Windows 95
From: Phil Austin <phil at geog dot ubc dot ca>
To: "Dave Borger" <dborger at wilshire dot com>
Cc: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>, help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 11:35:55 -0800

>>>>> "Dave" == Dave Borger <dborger at wilshire dot com> writes:

    Dave> OK. Back from meeting.  I moved the entire
    Dave> ...\octave-2.0.13-i386-pc-cygwin32 installation directory to
    Dave> the C drive (and renamed it 'tio' to avoid all of the
    Dave> typing).  


I don't know whether this might help, but we've just set our PC lab
up with octave.  We edited the octave script so that it first
mounted our g: drive to /octave, then everything worked fine.  I'm
attaching the edited octave script, the contents of LOADPATH, and
our autoexec.bat:
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#!/bin/sh
#
# Wrapper for octave for binary installations that can't install
# octave in /usr/local/bin.
#
# The real binary should be installed in as octave.bin, and this file
# should be installed in the same directory as octave.

if ! test -d /octave/bin; then
  mount g:/octave /octave >/dev/null 2>&1
fi

if test -n "$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"; then
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/octave/lib/octave-2.0.13:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
else
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/octave/lib/octave-2.0.13"
fi
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

OCTAVE_HOME=/octave
export OCTAVE_HOME

exec $OCTAVE_HOME/bin/octave.bin $*


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LOADPATH = .:/octave/libexec/octave/site/oct/i386-pc-cygwin32//:/octave/share/octave/site/m//:/octave/libexec/octave/2.0.13/oct/i386-pc-cygwin32//:/octave/share/octave/2.0.13/m//

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rem - By Windows Setup - MSCDEX.EXE /D:OEMCD001 /L:E
PATH=%PATH%;g:\w95bin;c:\idrisiw;g:\tcl\bin
regedit /L:c:\windows\system.dat /R:c:\windows\user.dat c:\temp\patch.reg
REM Add path information for cygwin,octave,emacs                              
SET PATH=%PATH%;g:\cygwin-b20\h-i586-cygwin32\bin
SET PATH=%PATH%;g:\octave\bin
SET PATH=%PATH%;g:\emacs\bin
SET HOME=C:\
SET OCTAVE_HOME=g:/octave
SET TERM=linux
C:\PROGRA~1\DRSOLO~1\ANTI-V~1\GUARD /COPY /WRITE


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