From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Wed Nov 8 14:36:26 2000 Subject: Re: Windows 2000 (more trouble) From: Nimrod Mesika To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 22:33:18 +0200 On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 11:55:17AM -0500, Robert Weldon wrote: > http://download.sourceforge.net/matlinks/octave-windows-2000oct25d.exe This may be a bit inaccurate as I'm not yet familiar enough with Windows 2000 or with octave-windows. However for those who are experiencing problems: 1. Installed octave-windows-2000 as Administrator At this point Octave works OK for the Administrator account. I use a restricted user account (this is supposed to be a multiuser system, right?) which could not run Octave. 2. Copied the registry entries of Cygwin from the registry of the Administrator to the registry of the restrcited user account (using regedit). Created a world-writable \tmp dir and removed the mkdir \tmp and rmdir \tmp from octave.bat Great - now Octave works. Piping to gnuplot fails. 3. Added a /Program Files/GNU/octave/home/.octaverc with putenv('TMPDIR', 'c://tmp'); (By the way, putting this statement in octave's startup script does not work for some reason). Presto! Now Octave & GNUplot work great. Now just one question for the port maintainer: It seems like Octave installs a reduced version of the cygwin tools. Can I now install the complete cygwin tools? Should I expect problems? And does Octave support .OCTs under windows? (DLLs I assume). Thank you for a very nice package. Makes living with Windows just a bit easier :) -- Nimrod. http://www.geocities.com/rodd_27 ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------