Re: Path?/dispatch error on starting Octave but path works

[David Bateman]

The PKG_ADD files in the comms and sparse directory contain basically only
things that are nice to have, like function overloading (so that you can
call "inv" and not "ginv" on galois fields for instance) and marking some
functions as commands so that you can use syntax like "<command> arg" 
rather than "<command>('arg')". 

If you really use the sparse and comms functions you'll probably want this
stuff because it adds to Matlab compatiability, etc. But otherwise its 
just in your way.

Regards
D.


According to Henry F. Mollet <address@hidden> (on 06/01/04):
> on 6/1/04 6:02 AM, Przemek Klosowski at address@hidden wrote:
> 
> > Henry,
> > 
> > I think that you have a file PKG_ADD
> > 
> > /Users/mollet/Desktop/usr/local/share/octave/2.1.55/site/m/octave-forge/comm/P
> > KG_ADD
> > 
> > which shouldn't be there. Delete the file and see if that makes it better.
> 
> 
> Many hanks. File PKG_ADD was also in /sparse directory. I renamed both and
> now  the error message on start-uo of Octave is gone. As per PK's reply it
> was nothing to worry about: "dispatch warnings you are getting are
> harmless."
> 
> I assume that these two files might have been needed if I had actually tried
> to install 2.1.55 including octave-forge. I was merely attempting to make
> the octave-forge .m files available to the installation that I'm actually
> using (GNU Octave, version 2.1.46 (powerpc-apple-darwin6.6).
> Henry
> 
> 
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