Octave

[John W. Eaton]

On 13-Aug-1998, David Whitaker <address@hidden> wrote:

| I have installed the binary distribution of Octave 2.0.13 for NT using bash
| following the installation instructions.  It seems to run fine, except I
| cannnot use matrices which are 8 by 8 or larger.  I get "broken pipe"
| messages for a command like  X=ones(8,8).  It works Ok for X=ones(7,8).
| 
| I cannot see where the size limits are in the manual, but it seems my
| version is restricted to quite small matrices.   Is this usual?

What are the values of the built-in variables PAGER and
page_screen_output in Octave?  Do you have a copy of the program named
by the PAGER variable installed on your system somewhere in Octave's
EXEC_PATH?

As a quick workaround, you should be able to set page_screen_output = 0.

jwe