From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Wed Jun 28 10:22:21 2000 Subject: Progress on Web GUI - New Problem From: "John W. Eaton" To: Tom Weichmann Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:22:02 -0500 (CDT) On 27-Jun-2000, Tom Weichmann wrote: | Here is octave output in my CHROOT environment | ------------------------------------------------------------- | octave:1> help help | help is a built-in text function | | | | Additional help for built-in functions, operators, and variables | is available in the on-line version of the manual. Use the command | `help -i ' to search the manual index. | | Help and information about Octave is also available on the WWW | at http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave/octave.html and via the | help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu mailing list. | | ------------------------------------------------------------- | | It seems as if octave can not parse the m-file for its help text. I | do not get any errors though. Any ideas?? The help command is a built-in function, so its help text is not in an M-file. In any case, from the format of the help text when it works, it looks like you are using Octave 2.1.x, which passes the help text through makeinfo for formatting. Do you have makeinfo installed in your chroot environment? You don't say exactly what version you are using, so I can only guess, but in the current sources, no error is produced if makeinfo is not available because then the help text is just passed on to the pager stream without formatting. I don't know why that is not working for you. jwe ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------------