Fw: Unusual slowness with octave 2.1.42 for windows

[Bob Bailey]

I have been using 2.1.42 for a couple of months and recently
downloaded and installed Cygwin/Octave 2.1.49.
Previously I used 2.1.36 for a month or two.

The 42 version takes a long time to start up on my two
PIII/Windows 98se machines, but comes up fast on a
PIII/Windows 2000 machine.  None are running Novell.

The two 98se machines have Norton Works/Firewall installed,
but disabling makes no difference.  None has Novell.

Also both the 42 and 49 versions of Octave take a long time
(30 to 40 seconds) to respond to basic commands on the 98se
machines.  For example,
dir or help XXX.  Also the 49 version pops up a half dozen
"This program has executed an illegal operation at .." messages.
But, it continues to run (if you call it running).  It does not shut
down.

The 42 version on the Win 2000 machine does not have the
command delay.  The 49 version is not installed on the Win 2000
machine.

To start the 49 ver, I double click on the Cygwin desktop icon,
then type octave.  I tried starting octave from Windows Explorer
by double clicking on drive:\Cygwin\bin\octave-2.1.49.exe,
but that just locks up the computer, necessitating a reboot.

Bob Bailey
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven D Ratts" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 9:07 AM
Subject: Re: Unusual slowness with octave 2.1.42 for windows

>
> I tried launching the actual executable directly, but that had no better
> result than when double clicking on the icon.
>
> Bummer,
> Steve
>
> Steven D Ratts
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>
>
> As a matter of fact I am using Novell.  I'm not at my desk at the moment,
> but I'll try your suggestion when I get back there.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
> Steven D Ratts
> 520.794.3692 Desk
> 520.794.5815 FAX
> 520.489.8916 Pager
> address@hidden
>
>                       Andy Adler
>
>                       <address@hidden         To:      Steven D Ratts
> <address@hidden>
>                       awa.ca>                  cc:
> address@hidden
>                                                Subject: Re: Unusual
> slowness with octave 2.1.42 for windows
>                       06/16/2003 05:35
>
>                       PM
>
> I've seen installs of octave-2.1.42 that start up very slowly.
> I haven't seen the other problems you mention. My current
> theory is that its a combination of Novell and the run.exe starter
> executable (run.exe prevents the popup dos box with shortcuts).
>
> Are you using Novell?
>
> Could you try running octave-2.1.42.exe directly? ie Go to
> C:\program files\Gnu Octave 2.1.42\bin\ and click on the exe.
>
> andy
>



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