#1 Help, please! (MatLab -> Octave)

[Valeriy Sterligov]

Hello,

I need to use Octave for educational purposes for students of
University of Nice, I have rather short time for preparation of tasks
for them, but I have a lot of problem running Octave probably because
lack of my experience in this area.

I have some program files of MatLab that works well in this
environment and I would like to transfer them to Octave. I read the
chapter of FAQ "Porting programs from MATLAB to Octave", then I run
octave from console by command like "octave --traditional". Octave runs
without error messages, than I put lines

PS1 = ">> "
PS2 = ""
beep_on_error = 1.0
default_eval_print_flag = 0.0
default_save_format = "mat-binary"
define_all_return_values = 1.0
do_fortran_indexing = 1.0
empty_list_elements_ok = 1.0
fixed_point_format = 1.0
implicit_num_to_str_ok = 1.0
implicit_str_to_num_ok = 1.0
ok_to_lose_imaginary_part = 1.0
page_screen_output = 0.0
prefer_column_vectors = 0.0
prefer_zero_one_indexing = 1.0
print_empty_dimensions = 0.0
treat_neg_dim_as_zero = 1.0
warn_function_name_clash = 0.0
whitespace_in_literal_matrix = "traditional"

in file that I call debut.m and run command "source (debut.m)"

as result I have next error messages:

error: can't perform structure reference operations for <unknown type> type
error: evaluating expression
error: evaluating argument list element number 1
error: evaluating index expression near line 1, column 1

Could you tell me, what is wrong, what are the correct actions that
should be done for resolving this problem? By the way, I did not found
in my any working directories file .octaverc, in which you proposed put,
if I understand right, command lines above. Should I create it? With
what content?

I am highly appreciate your prompt help

Sincerely yours Valeriy Sterligov

Dr. Valeriy A.Sterligov
Laboratoire de Physique de la MatiХre CondensИe
UniversitИ de Nice-Sophia Antipolis
Parc Valrose
06108 Nice, Cedex 2, FRANCE
phone: (33) 4 9207 6790 (ext.2680)
fax:      (33) 4 9207 6754
email: address@hidden



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