octave/cygwin: load looks in the root of c drive

[Olivier Jacques]

Hello all,

congrats for Octave ; what a great piece of software !

I have one issue that has been bugging me and I wonder if this is a
known issue, or a simple misunderstanding on my side.
I'm using Octave 2.1.71, built for cygwin. When I try to "load" a file
that is in the same directory as octave, I get an error: "error: load:
nonexistent file: `test.csv.y'"
When copying this file to the root directory of my c drive
(/cygdrive/c/ in cygwin), the file can be loaded.
See details below.

How can I load the file in the directory from which I launch Octave?
Is it only an issue with Cygwin?

Thanks!
Olivier.


address@hidden /cygdrive/c/transfer/octave/stats
$ ls -l test.csv.y
-rw-rw-rw-  1 olja mkgroup-l-d 1852 Jun 30 23:41 test.csv.y

address@hidden /cygdrive/c/transfer/octave/stats
$ octave
GNU Octave, version 2.1.71 (i686-pc-cygwin).
Copyright (C) 2005 John W. Eaton.
This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTIBILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  For details, type `warranty'.

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Please contribute if you find this software useful.
For more information, visit http://www.octave.org/help-wanted.html

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gnuplot_binary = c:/gnuplot/bin/pgnuplot
gnuplot_has_multiplot = 1
page_output_immediately = 1
ans = .:/usr/local/libexec/octave/2.1.71/site/oct/i686-pc-cygwin//:/usr/local/li
bexec/octave/site/oct/api-v13/i686-pc-cygwin//:/usr/local/libexec/octave/site/oc
t/i686-pc-cygwin//:/usr/local/share/octave/2.1.71/site/m//:/usr/local/share/octa
ve/site/api-v13/m//:/usr/local/share/octave/site/m//:/usr/local/libexec/octave/2
.1.71/oct/i686-pc-cygwin//:/usr/local/share/octave/2.1.71/m//:/usr/local/share/o
ctave/2.1.71/m/statistics//:/usr/local/share/octave/2.1.71/m/control//
octave:1> load test.csv.y
error: load: nonexistent file: `test.csv.y'
octave:1> exit

address@hidden /cygdrive/c/transfer/octave/stats
$ cp test.csv.y /cygdrive/c/

address@hidden /cygdrive/c/transfer/octave/stats
$ octave
GNU Octave, version 2.1.71 (i686-pc-cygwin).
Copyright (C) 2005 John W. Eaton.
This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTIBILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  For details, type `warranty'.

Additional information about Octave is available at http://www.octave.org.

Please contribute if you find this software useful.
For more information, visit http://www.octave.org/help-wanted.html

Report bugs to <address@hidden> (but first, please read
http://www.octave.org/bugs.html to learn how to write a helpful report).

gnuplot_binary = c:/gnuplot/bin/pgnuplot
gnuplot_has_multiplot = 1
page_output_immediately = 1
ans = .:/usr/local/libexec/octave/2.1.71/site/oct/i686-pc-cygwin//:/usr/local/li
bexec/octave/site/oct/api-v13/i686-pc-cygwin//:/usr/local/libexec/octave/site/oc
t/i686-pc-cygwin//:/usr/local/share/octave/2.1.71/site/m//:/usr/local/share/octa
ve/site/api-v13/m//:/usr/local/share/octave/site/m//:/usr/local/libexec/octave/2
.1.71/oct/i686-pc-cygwin//:/usr/local/share/octave/2.1.71/m//:/usr/local/share/o
ctave/2.1.71/m/statistics//:/usr/local/share/octave/2.1.71/m/control//
octave:1> load test.csv.y
octave:2>



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