From maintainers-request at octave dot org Fri Jan 14 04:44:34 2005
Subject: Re: Yet another thread on Octave on Windows.
From: Ole Jacob Hagen <waterthrill at yahoo dot no>
To: maintainers at octave dot org
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 11:45:31 +0100

I guess the latest post was rather stupid. ;-)

I really want MinGW compiled Octave to work on Windows without using 
Cygwin.

Here comes better question (I hope).

1. What class/file is loading m and oct files, and which classes are 
using it?
2. What class/file does recursive search of directories to find m, and 
oct-files, and what classes are using it?
3. By using source("filename.m") I can load any m-file. What do I need 
to do, to avoid usage of source?
4. What classes are handling inputs in octave-console?

This might be ambitious to try solving these problems I am having with a 
native Win32 port of Octave.

Shouldn't Octave work in the manner in MSYS (lite cygwin environment) as 
in Cygwin? Or does MSYS and MinGW includes some other preprocessor 
directives, so loading of m-files and oct-files doesn't loads properly?

Another thing, is that error text doesn't appear correctly. My Octave on 
Win32 doesn't find bode-command, and when I try to say bode, octave 
returns a strange message back: "error: " + |  +  'arrow up' + 'smiley'

Cheers,

Ole J.