From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Mon Aug 14 07:40:49 2000 Subject: Re: installing octave on pc From: "Johan Kullstam" To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Date: 14 Aug 2000 08:41:51 -0400 bas at bio dot vu dot nl (Bas Kooijman) writes: > Dear LS, > > I tried to install octave under emacs on a pc > The emacs support for preparing *.m files works well, > but the system cannot find octave after M-x run-octave > A path to C:/bin/sh.exe causes an emacs-freeze > I tried > emacs 20.4.1, i386-*-windows95.1212 > ocatave-2.0.13-i386-pc-cygwin32 > Cygnus B19 > Octave does run in a ms-dos window95 under bash > but I want to run it under emacs windows95 isn't very good at multi-tasking. emacs might not be able to run octave as an asynchronous sub-process in such an environment. > We have no problems with running Octave under Unix on our Sun-system that's because unix is a real multi-tasking operating system. if you need a microsoft OS, NT is fine too. > Another question: > Do I understand correctly that Octave does not support > multi-dimensional arrays?I am used to work with APL, so that this > hurts a lot. octave only has 2-arrays. there are structures and you can hack up poor man's versions using reshape or eval. -- J o h a n K u l l s t a m [kullstam at ne dot mediaone dot net] Don't Fear the Penguin! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave/octave.html How to fund new projects: http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave/archive.html -----------------------------------------------------------------------