From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Wed Aug 15 21:34:15 2001
Subject: Re: installation on windows 98
From: Tom Weichmann <tomcw at localnet dot com>
To: robher at adinet dot com dot uy, help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu,        lamarca@instalservice.com
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 22:33:29 -0400

José and Roberto,

Please let me know how this goes.  If all goes well I will put this into the 
package to let everyone benefit from it!!

Thanks,

Tom Weichmann


On Wednesday, August 15, 2001 02:08 pm, Roberto Hernández wrote:
> Jose,
>
> I have two possible suggestions:
>
> 1. There's a new Windows version at http://members.localnet.com/~tomcw/. I
> haven't tried it yet, but maybe that'll fix your problem.
>
> 2. The install file you have does not work on computers with non-English
> versions of Windows. This is because of a batch file, specifically
> "setup.bat". Basically some part of it has to determine the current
> directory, which is by no means a simple task with batch files. This is
> accomplished by a pretty creative file named "Directory.bat" which is
> English-specific.
>
>     When I ran into this problem I downloaded
> "octave-windows-2000oct25c.exe" from SourceForge, modified the parts that
> didn't work and re-created an install file which worked for me. I have a
> ZIP file with all the modifications I made. It should work for any language
> and should also solve the problem Tom mentioned in his post. If you decide
> for this, just write me and I'll mail you the ZIP file (I don't know
> whether attatchments are allowed on this mailing list), it's only about
> 6Kb.
>
> Hope that works for you.
>
> Roberto
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: José Mª Lamarca Capa
> To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 6:11 AM
> Subject: installation on windows 98
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I downloaded the octave-windows-2000oct25d.exe file from sourceforge.net
> and although the installation seemed to work fine and I got a message of
> 'installation was successful', I can not get the program to work. Clicking
> on the 'octave.bat' file or on the screen icon (it appears now but it
> seemed not to do that on the first trials of installation) gives an OS2
> screen with the message 'invalid command or file name' (translation from
> spanish). I read through the help mailing list where I found people with
> similar problems and I tried some of the hints given with no success. In
> some of the responses there were many web sites referenced that no longer
> exist. I would be very grateful if someone could help me out.
>
>
>
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