Re: Fw: Unusual slowness with octave 2.1.42 for windows

[Agustin Barto]

The latest versions of cygwin and/or octave don't work well on Windows9x/ME 
computers. I tried everything and counldn't get it to work as it does on 
Windows2k/XP. The only thing that worked was going back to an old version of 
both octave (2.1.36) and cygwin.

I don't know who's to blame for these problems (most likely cygwin), but I 
hope they get fixed some day. Almost all of our computers in the lab are 
win9x/me based and I hate being stuck with old software.

Agustin

On Monday 16 June 2003 11:55 pm, Bob Bailey wrote:
> 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
> address@hidden
>
> ----- 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
> > 520.794.3692 Desk
> > 520.794.5815 FAX
> > 520.489.8916 Pager
> > address@hidden
> >
> >
> > 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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