From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Mon Feb 11 18:50:45 2002
Subject: Re: so far so good | but..file I/O
From: Roberto Hernandez <robher at adinet dot com dot uy>
To: Evan Cooch <evan dot cooch at cornell dot edu>
CC: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 21:44:13 -0300

The Windows version of Octave isn't really a native Windows program. It 
needs Cygwin, which basically gives you the Linux API on top of a win32 
system. Therefore, you need to do everything as if you were using Linux 
(hence the "/" instead of "\"). What that means in your case is that you 
need to mount the root directory into the cygwin filesystem.

In the Octave bin/ directory you'll find mount.exe. All you need to do 
is run "mount C:\ /win" (you can substitute /win for whatever you like). 
There's an option that adds this to your registry and makes it 
permanent, but I can't remember what it is (mount --help).

Now you'll be able to do:

save -ascii /win/windows/desktop/student

There's a good FAQ on using Octave with Windows at: 
http://octave.sourceforge.net.

Regards,

Roberto

Evan Cooch wrote:
> Well, thanks to people's kind answers to my question about porting from 
> MATLAB cell array to Octave's LIST, 95% of the m-files have been 
> successfully ported to Octave (at least, the m-files that have no 
> graphics...).
> 
> However, one minor thing - I'm currently running the Windoze binary of 
> Octave (pause for people to gnash their teeth), and am have problems 
> figuring out how to modify various search paths, and (as important) how 
> to specify where files are saved. Since students will be using the 
> software, I'd like them to be able to save files to a student directory. 
> Call it student. So
> 
> save -asciii /windows/desktop/student
> 
> or some such (although this doesn't work - it gives me an error saying 
> that writing to that directory isn't allowed. All saves get dumped into 
> teh main Octave root directory).
> 
> I RTFM as far as I could (the HTML version of same), and didn't see any 
> obvious pointers to modifying how aspects of file I/O are handled - only 
> the basic commands.
> 
> Thanks!




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