Re: installation on windows 98

[Roberto Hernández]

Jose,

I have two possible suggestions:

1. There's a new Windows version at http://members.localnet.com/~tomcw/. I
haven't tried it yet, but maybe that'll fix your problem.

2. The install file you have does not work on computers with non-English
versions of Windows. This is because of a batch file, specifically
"setup.bat". Basically some part of it has to determine the current
directory, which is by no means a simple task with batch files. This is
accomplished by a pretty creative file named "Directory.bat" which is
English-specific.

    When I ran into this problem I downloaded
"octave-windows-2000oct25c.exe" from SourceForge, modified the parts that
didn't work and re-created an install file which worked for me. I have a ZIP
file with all the modifications I made. It should work for any language and
should also solve the problem Tom mentioned in his post. If you decide for
this, just write me and I'll mail you the ZIP file (I don't know whether
attatchments are allowed on this mailing list), it's only about 6Kb.

Hope that works for you.

Roberto

----- Original Message -----
From: José Mª Lamarca Capa
To: address@hidden
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 6:11 AM
Subject: installation on windows 98


Hi,

I downloaded the octave-windows-2000oct25d.exe file from sourceforge.net and
although the installation seemed to work fine and I got a message of
'installation was successful', I can not get the program to work. Clicking
on the 'octave.bat' file or on the screen icon (it appears now but it seemed
not to do that on the first trials of installation) gives an OS2 screen with
the message 'invalid command or file name' (translation from spanish). I
read through the help mailing list where I found people with similar
problems and I tried some of the hints given with no success. In some of the
responses there were many web sites referenced that no longer exist. I would
be very grateful if someone could help me out.



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