From maintainers-request at octave dot org Fri Jan 14 05:28:38 2005
Subject: Re: Yet another thread on Octave on Windows.
From: Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at users dot sourceforge dot net>
To: Ole Jacob Hagen <waterthrill at yahoo dot no>
Cc: maintainers at octave dot org
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 06:31:57 -0500

Ole,

There is a command line flag to force octave into interactive mode.
For some reason, rxvt on msys makes octave act like it is operating
without a terminal.

- Paul

On Jan 14, 2005, at 3:59 AM, Ole Jacob Hagen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I found the source-function, and used it. But this is not practical 
> usage, since Octave should handle it's own m-files and oct-files all 
> by it self. Which file/class handles this behaviour? I guess it's the 
> kpathsea-files for path, but which class/files handles the loading of 
> m-files and oct-files?
> I'll  take one more look at the kpathsea-files?
> BTW, which classes/files are using kpathsea functionality?
>
>
> I don't get the octave-prompt, when I start Octave from MinGW (MSYS) 
> prompt, but I get it, when I start Octave from cmd (dos).
> MSYS package works pretty much in the same way as Cygwin. Actually it 
> looks like a mini-Cygwin, since it is mounting partition in the same 
> way as Cygwin does. Just take a look:
>
>> oleha at ZHERLOCK3 /d/Octave/OctaveBin/bin
>> $ mount
>> C:\DOCUME~1\oleha\LOCALS~1\Temp on /tmp type user (binmode,noumount)
>> D:\msys\1.0\bin on /usr/bin type user (binmode,cygexec,noumount)
>> D:\msys\1.0\bin on /bin type user (binmode,cygexec,noumount)
>> D:\msys\1.0 on / type user (binmode,noumount)
>> D:\msys\1.0 on /usr type user (binmode,noumount)
>> d:\MinGW on /mingw type user (binmode)
>> a: on /a type user (binmode,noumount)
>> c: on /c type user (binmode,noumount)
>> d: on /d type user (binmode,noumount)
>> e: on /e type user (binmode,noumount)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ole J.
>
> Laurent Mazet wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 14:07:44 +0100
>> Ole Jacob Hagen <waterthrill at yahoo dot no> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> I have compiled Octave-2.1.64 with MinGW (gcc-3.2.3), and it starts 
>>> up.
>>>
>>> However, the path's is not correct, since functions like lu, qr, 
>>> plot are not found by Octave.
>>> I guess this is a kpathsea related error?
>>>
>>> How can I solve this?
>>>
>>
>> You have to source the associate .m file. For example:
>>
>> source("/usr/share/octave/2.1.60/m/plot/plot.m")
>>
>> --
>> Laurent Mazet: Research Engineer /V\ Centre de Recherche de MOTOROLA
>> Tel: +33 (0)1 69 35 48 30 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Email: 
>> mazet at crm dot mot dot com
>>
>>
>>
>