RE: installation under Windows 95

[Julian A. de Marchi, Ph.D]

Ah, you are one of the fortunate few Windows Octave users who are on
what we here call the "home stretch" (rather than still in the pit)!

But seriously, I think your fix is quite straightforward:

        - create a directory somewhere where your temp files will be stored
        - in autoexec.bat, add the line

                        SET TMP={your new directory, wherever that may be}

        - reboot your computer

To make things Octave-friendly, {your new directory} should not contain
any spaces or long directory names (keep each subfolder, if any, shorter 
than 8 chars).  I personally use

                        SET TMP=d:\tmp

Good luck

Julian
MatLinks.net
 

-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden
[mailto:address@hidden Behalf Of Mauricio O
Calvao
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 9:45 PM
To: address@hidden
Subject: installation under Windows 95


Hi

I downloaded the file octave-windows-2000oct25d.exe from the sourceforge

site.
I intend to have Octave installed under my Windows 95 PC. I ran the .exe

file and, apparently, it said that the installation was succesfull;
however, when I double-clicked on the desktop icon for Octave there
arose a DOS window, stating that

bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!
start: /WINDOWS/COMMAND/start: No such file or directory

I have also checked the subdirectories under E:\Octave (where I decided
to install the software), and the home, the src and the tmp directories
were all empty...

Can you provide some help?

Thank you in advance!

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