From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Mon Jan 27 15:58:28 2003
Subject: Re: Display problem in GNU-Octave on WindowsXP
From: Andy Adler <adler at site dot uottawa dot ca>
To: "Jeffrey, Jau-Huei Lin" <jeffrey dot lin at hsc dot utah dot edu>
cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 16:57:35 -0500 (EST)

A few questions:

1. Are you using a localized install of WinXP (ie Chinese)
2. Which octave install did you use (which web site)?
3. Are you running octave in an rxvt? or in a cmd box?

Andy

On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Jeffrey, Jau-Huei Lin wrote:
> I tried to install GNU-octave on my windowsXP laptop.  The method I used
> was the binary code for windows.  The installation process was smooth
> and the program runs OK.  The problem is the display of the characters I
> typed.  There is a straight bar after every character I typed.  It looks
> like
>
> If I type :       abcd
> It will echo :  a|b|c|d|
>
> I don't believe it's a major bug.  Maybe it's just a setup problem.  I
> tried the same binary code on my win2k machine.  Everything is ok.   But
> I got this problem on my new machine.
>
> Has anybody reported the similar problem?  Is there any way to fix it?
>
> Thanks
>
> Jeff



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