From help-octave-request at octave dot org Fri Apr  9 15:52:34 2004
Subject: Re: Can't read file with fopen and fscanf fails
From: "Mariano Wis" <mwis at iies dot es>
To: "Ricardo Carvalho" <rrbc at oninetspeed dot pt>, <help-octave@octave.org>
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 22:47:15 +0200

Try typing the complete directory path of the file or copying oct_input.txt
in the .\GNU Octave 2.1.50\octave_files\ . May be it could work better.

Mariano Wis.
(Barcelona, Spain)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ricardo Carvalho" <rrbc at oninetspeed dot pt>
To: <help-octave at octave dot org>
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 9:33 PM
Subject: Can't read file with fopen and fscanf fails


> I installed GNU OCTAVE 2.1.50 for Windows and created the directory
'D:\GNU
> Octave 2.1.50\opt\octave\share\octave\2.1.50\m\harmgen\'. Then I copied 2
> files to that directory: 'harmgen.m' and 'oct_input.txt' (text file with
> numbers). At the OCTAVE prompt I wrote  harmgen (script presence is
> recognised, no path problems) and the first line of the script was
executed
> but the second failed (error is 'inf= - 1'). The script file I created has
> no headers (are they necessary?) and is like this:
>
> silent_functions = 1
> inf = fopen ("oct_input.txt", "r");
> Nc = fscanf (inf, "%u", 1)
>
> etc, etc, etc....
>
> I then uninstalled OCTAVE for Windows and reinstalled but file presence is
> still not recognised/located. In a previous instalation I was able to read
> the file into memory - don't ask me why/how - but, even then, the
following
> instruction (Nc=fscanf...) failed.
>
> Please help. Thanks, Ricardo Carvalho (Lisbon, Portugal)
>
>
>
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