From help-request at octave dot org Fri Jun 17 12:18:12 2005
Subject: problems with 2.1.71 and Octave-Forge
From: Robert Kirchner <kirchner at ualberta dot ca>
To: help at octave dot org
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 11:10:35 -0600

Since updating from Octave 2.1.64 to 2.1.71-1, with Octave-Forge  
2004.11.16-5 (Fink distribution, built on Mac OS 10.3), I've been  
experiencing a number of problems.  Here are a couple of symptoms.

> octave:1> help sin
> sh: line 1: sed: command not found
> sin is a built-in function
>
>
>
> Additional help for built-in functions, operators, and variables
> is available in the on-line version of the manual.  Use the command
> `help -i <topic>' to search the manual index.
>
> Help and information about Octave is also available on the WWW
> at http://www.octave.org and via the help at octave dot org
> mailing list.
> octave:2> help sparse
> sh: line 1: sed: command not found
> sparse is the dynamically-linked function from the file
> /sw/lib/octave/2.1.71/site/oct/powerpc-apple-darwin/octave-forge/ 
> sparse.oct
>
>
>
> Additional help for built-in functions, operators, and variables
> is available in the on-line version of the manual.  Use the command
> `help -i <topic>' to search the manual index.
>
> Help and information about Octave is also available on the WWW
> at http://www.octave.org and via the help at octave dot org
> mailing list.

That is, using the 'help' command, all I get is a statement of whether  
the function is built-in or user-defined, and if the latter, where the  
function file is, but no actual help text.  Also, when using  
Octave-Forge's 'wavread' function, I get the following error:

> octave:3> [x,sr]=wavread('~/Desktop/exe2.wav')
> warning: in fopen near line 13, column 5:
> warning: fopen: default open mode is now binary
> error: fread: invalid stream number = -1
> error: evaluating assignment expression near line 14, column 4
> error: called from `wavread' in file  
> `/sw/share/octave/2.1.71/site/m/octave-forge/audio/wavread.m'

Does anybody have a clue what's causing this?

Dr. Robert Kirchner, Linguistics Dept.
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(780) 492-3480 (fax 492-0806)
kirchner at ualberta dot ca, http://www.ualberta.ca/~kirchner



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