Re: Possible to increase 256 Mb Memory Limit? (Windows 2000)

[Robert A. Macy]

Mirek,

>From the octave prompt I type in...
cd \\
the directory does indeed change to the root directory

however if I type...
cd Documents and Settings
or...
cd Documents\ and\ Settings
or...
cd Documents<sp>and<sp>Settings
all give an error msg of...
error: Documents: No such file or directory

However, typing in...
cd "Documents and Settings"
does work

I was very surprised that the 2nd attempt above using
backslashes does not work.  

                    - Robert -

In this case I'm running binary oactave-2.1.50a-inst.exe on
Windows XP (pentium III) with 

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 11:04:22 +0100
 Miroslaw Kwasniak <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 12:59:31AM -0800, Robert A. Macy
> wrote:
> > According to the docs I should be able to type some
> line
> > like this...
> > 
> > system('regtool.exe -i set /HKLM/Software/Cygnus\
> > Solutions/Cygwin/heap_chunk_in_mb 1024')
> [...] 
> > if I type the above line, I get a single error
> statement
> > saying it doesn't like the back slash and is replacing
> it
> > with a " "
> 
> Somewhere it was described as _one-line_ (for command
> line - bash???) -
> backslash is used here to splitting parameter whith space
> into two
> parameters:
> 
> regtool.exe -i set /HKLM/Software/Cygnus\
> Solutions/Cygwin/heap_chunk_in_mb 1024
> 
> I don't it's good to do via octave `system' but you can
> try (in one line):
> 
>
system('regtool.exe<sp>-i<sp>set<sp>/HKLM/Software/Cygnus\\<sp>Solutions/Cygwin/heap_chunk_in_mb<sp>1024')
> 
> Where you have to change <sp> for ' ' (space character).
> I wrote so to
> prevent distortion by e-mail system. Remark also two
> backslashes - octave
> interprets backslash sequences (so called escape
> sequences) - in this case
> it'll convert \\ to \ as expected.
> 
> I don't how `system' is executed  on octave for Windows -
> maybe via
> command/cmd? Then you can try use double quotes whithout
> backslash:
> 
>      "/HKLM/Software/Cygnus
> Solutions/Cygwin/heap_chunk_in_mb"
> 
> Mirek
> 



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