From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Thu Feb 5 14:52:58 2004 Subject: Re: Windows shortcut problem From: Peter Brinkmann To: Christoph Dalitz Cc: Peter Brinkmann , help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 14:44:23 -0600 Christoph: Thanks for your prompt reply! > I guess the problem has to do with Octave being a Cygwin application rather > than a "native" Win32 application. That was my first thought, too, but then why is it possible to change the starting directory in the properties of the Matlab entry in the Start menu? Naively, I would reckon that entries in the Start menu should behave just like shortcut icons, but apparently they don't. Has anyone else noticed this problem? > Note that you need to specify the *Cygwin* path to your directory. You can > generate the cygwin path format with the utility cygpath that is shipped > with cygwin in the package cygutils. You can directly use it in the shortcut > with the backtics cammand substitution syntax: > > C:\path\to\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c "cd `cygpath -u C:\win32\path\format\` && octave" This'll work, but I'm really hoping for a way to get shortcut icons to work in the expected way. I'm trying to come up with a simply way to deploy educational software to users who are not necessarily computer-savvy. I figure I can expect them to modify properties of shortcut icons, but typing a command like the one above would be a bit much for most of them. Best, Peter ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------