From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Wed Mar  1 06:54:39 2000
Subject: Unidentified subject!
From: frangos at cfra dot rau dot ac dot za
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 16:02:28 +0200


1 March 2000

John Eaton
University of Wisconsin
USA

jwe at  dot bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu

Dear Sir,

I have been using octave for the past five years and am currently running a version 
(at least 2 - 3 years old) at home under under Slackware Linux.

I recently installed red-hat Linux 6.0 on my computer at work and also octave 2.0.14.
Surprisingly, the .m files developed using the octave at home, do not  work properly
on vers 2.0.14. I am getting the following errors:

(1) Most of my functions are  defined in files with the same name.m, for example, a 
function called fx1_o() resides in a file fx1_o.m . If I try and run this script from 
the command line I get the warning given below and octave returns to the command line.:

warning: function `fx1_o' defined within script file `/home/frangos/octave/fx1_o.m'

This does not seem to be correct. If you run the function again this warning 
disappears, but reappears again each time any other function is called from within
fx1_o.m, at which point  octave suspends execution and returns to the command
line.

(2) If I edit a file in which a function is defined and  attempt to rerun
this function, then somehow octave keeps on running  the original version of the
file without the changes. The  value of the system variable
"ignore_function_time_stamp = system". I tried to change this to "all"  and to some 
other character strings but the problem is persisting.

The version of octave I have at home does not have the above problems.

(3) Sometimes I have to plot many plots on one graph using plot(...). However, the 
annotations that appear on the screen for each plot e.g. "... line1", 
"...line2", "...line3", etc. interfere with the actual plots. I don't know whether 
it is possible to stop the afore-mentioned amnnotations from appearing on the screen.

I would apprciate it very much indeed if you could help me with the above
problems.

Sincerely,

Constantine Frangos
Professor
Dept. of Statistics
The Rand Afrikaans University
P O Box 524
Auckland Park 2006
Johannesburg
South Africa

Tel: +27-11-489-2452
Fax: +27-11-489-2832
e-mail: frangos at cfra dot rau dot ac dot za



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