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

[Paul Kienzle]

It sounds like you forgot the quotes around the filename, so it is trying
to dereference a field of a non-existant variable.  Either use

> source('debut.m')

or just

> debut

The latter will work if debut.m is on your octave LOADPATH.  See

> help path

for details.

You may also want some of the functions in my matlab compatibility package
at  http://users.powernet.co.uk/kienzle/octave/matcompat

Paul Kienzle
address@hidden

On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 12:56:11PM +0100, Valeriy Sterligov wrote:
> 
> 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 Matière Condensée
> Université 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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