From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Wed Mar 31 14:54:24 1999 Subject: Re: can't use full path in load command From: "John W. Eaton" To: David Larom Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 14:54:21 -0600 (CST) On 31-Mar-1999, David Larom wrote: | At 01:53 PM 3/31/99 -0600, jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu wrote: | | >You are going to have to provide more details. How can you expect | >anyone to be able to help you if you don't provide enough information | >to allow the problem to be reproduced? | | I thought this was self-explanatory, to such an extent that I thought Yip's | message encompassed everything anyone would need to know. I didn't want to | waste your or anyone else's time with an excessively verbose message. Generally it saves time if you provide all the details again, even if they can be found in some archive somewhere. Then I don't have to go dig up some information. | Here are some details: | | I can't load ANY file with a pathname. | | Example: my root directory is /usr2/dlarom. I have a minimalist test file | /usr2/dlarom/oct/dat.jnk, contents as follows: | 1 2 | 3 4 | >From the directory /usr2/dlarom/oct, 'load dat.jnk' works fine. from any | directory, 'load /usr2/dlarom/oct/dat.jnk' does not work. from my root | directory, 'load oct/dat.jnk' does not work. from another directory | /usr2/dlarom/pwr, 'load ../oct/dat.jnk' does not work. OK, it looks like I was wrong about this problem being fixed in 2.0.13. But it does seem to be fixed in my current 2.0.x sources, so it should be fixed in 2.0.14. The fix should also be in the latest test release if you would like to verify that it works for you before 2.0.14 (that would be helpful, because if it does not, then perhaps it could be fixed before the actual release). | >Bugs should also be reported to the bug-octave mailing list. | | Wasn't clear it was a bug or simply something I didn't understand. OK. Thanks, jwe