Re: How to write and run .mfiles in octave

[Tomer Altman]

Hi Victor,

Just like in Matlab, you need to tell Octave where to expect to find
M-files. Explore these tidbits:

LOADPATH:
http://www.octave.org/doc/octave_12.html#SEC95

Also, check out the 'path' function. Watch this:

octave> path
LOADPATH contains the following directories:
  ~/code//
octave> path(path,"/usr/share/octave-2.1.50/")
ans = ::~/code//:/usr/share/octave-2.1.50/
octave> path
LOADPATH contains the following directories:
  ~/code//
  /usr/share/octave-2.1.50/
octave> 

See how I 'added', or extended the path by typing the seemingly
recursive statement, path(path,"/new/path/to/add") ?

My sixth sense tells me that you're using a Windows OS without
Cygwin. That's a good one; who here knows where this guy could put a
".octaverc" file in plain-vanilla Windows, on order to automagically
load his LOADPATH variable?

Hope this helps!

Cheers, & good luck with your project,

~Tomer


On Oct 28, 2003 at 7:16pm, Victor Kareem wrote:

slickv >Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 19:16:20 -0600
slickv >From: Victor Kareem <address@hidden>
slickv >To: address@hidden
slickv >Subject: How to write and run .mfiles in octave
slickv >Resent-Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 22:33:30 -0600
slickv >Resent-From: address@hidden
slickv >Resent-To: help-octave <address@hidden>
slickv >
slickv >I am a student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. I am working 
on a 
slickv >senior design project using octave. I am building a series of virtual 
labs 
slickv >that deals with different types of signal processing for communication 
slickv >systems. I wrote a simple mfile just like you would in matlab. I try to 
run 
slickv >the mfile on octave but i have no luck. this is the way i wrote the 
mfile
slickv >
slickv >a =[1,2,3]
slickv >b=[4,5,6]
slickv >y=conv(a,b)
slickv >plot(y)
slickv >
slickv >I saved the mfile as test1.m in the same directory where my octave 
slickv >2.1.36.exe is located. I opened octave and type test1 <enter>. Well 
nothing 
slickv >showed. But if i type the above command line by line on the octave 
screen, 
slickv >it works fine. Can someone tell or show an example on how to write and 
run 
slickv >.mfiles
slickv >in octave. It seems am doing it wrong. All inputs are highly 
appreciated. 
slickv >Thanks
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