Re: two questions -- one remaining

[Henry F. Mollet]

Joe,
It was supposed to be Unix but apparently it was not.

Textfile was pasted into 'Smultron' text editor (Swedish for wild
strawberry). It has line numbers but no hex dump. I thought it would use
Unix line termination. By the way, thanks for telling me about it some time
ago. 

So I took mine.m into BBEdit which has a hexdump and the final two code
lines are:
0500: 79 6C 61 62 65 6C 28 27 45 78 74 72 61 63 74 69     ylabel('Extracti
0510: 6F 6E 27 29 3B 0D 20 0D                             on');. .
So indeed it was pernicious Mac line termination i.e. invalid character `\r'
(ASCII 13= Hex 0D).

So after saving with Unix line termination I got a little farther with
mine.m:
octave:28> mineBBEditUnix
MINE MANAGEMENT MODEL
error: `gridmake' undefined near line 22 column 14
error: near line 22 of file `/Users/hfm/Documents/CandO/mineBBEditUnix.m'
Henry




on 9/12/05 8:20 PM, Joe Koski at address@hidden wrote:

> Henry,
> 
> Could the input text file have the wrong line endings for your machine? I
> have all sorts of problems when my octave file line endings aren't set for
> for UNIX.
>  
> Joe
> 
> on 9/12/05 8:41 PM, Henry F. Mollet at address@hidden wrote:
> 
>> I don't have an explanation but I tried your script as is and got nothing
>> i.e. no plots nor any errors. Then I replaced the first figure statement
>> with gset term aqua and "all hell broke loose". I've repeated it twice with
>> same results.
>> There is however no invalid character character at line 2:
>> octave:7>   fprintf('\nMINE MANAGEMENT MODEL\n')
>> MINE MANAGEMENT MODEL
>> Therefore the error must be elsewhere. I would proceed line by line to find
>> the error.
>> Henry
>> %  figure(1);       % line 42
>> gset term aqua 1    % new line 43
>> octave:7> mine
>> error: invalid character `\r' (ASCII 13) near line 2, column 18
>> parse error near line 2 of file /Users/hfm/Documents/CandO/mine.m
>> 
>>   xlabel('Stock'); ylabel('Extraction');
>>                     ^
>> 
>> parse error near line 2 of file /Users/hfm/Documents/CandO/mine.m
>> 
>>   syntax error
>> 
>>   xlabel('Stock'); ylabel('Extraction');
>>                                      ^
>> 
>> error: invalid character `\r' (ASCII 13) near line 2, column 36
>> parse error near line 2 of file /Users/hfm/Documents/CandO/mine.m
>> 
>>   xlabel('Stock'); ylabel('Extraction');
>>                                       ^
>> 
>> error: invalid character `\r' (ASCII 13) near line 2, column 71
>> parse error near line 2 of file /Users/hfm/Documents/CandO/mine.m
>> 
>>   xlabel('Stock'); ylabel('Extraction');
>>                                                                          ^
>> 
>> error: invalid character `\r' (ASCII 13) near line 2, column 107
>> parse error near line 2 of file /Users/hfm/Documents/CandO/mine.m
>> 
>>   xlabel('Stock'); ylabel('Extraction');
>>                 
>> ^
>> 
>> error: invalid character `\r' (ASCII 13) near line 2, column 109
>> parse error near line 2 of file /Users/hfm/Documents/CandO/mine.m
>> 
>>   xlabel('Stock'); ylabel('Extraction');
>>                 
>> ^
>> 
>> error: invalid character `\r' (ASCII 13) near line 2, column 110
>> parse error near line 2 of file /Users/hfm/Documents/CandO/mine.m
>> 
>>   xlabel('Stock'); ylabel('Extraction');
>>                 
>> ^
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> on 9/12/05 12:03 PM, address@hidden at address@hidden wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> thank your for your quick answers. I tried your suggestions, but still I
>>> have
>>> the problem.
>>> 
>>> Joe:
>>>> Klári,
>>>> 
>>>> In Octave, plotting is done with with a separate program, gnuplot.
>>>> Whilemany of the plot commands are the same, the order of the
>>>> commands differs.
>>>> Try placing the plot command after the title, xlabel, etc. If you
>>>> still have
>>>> problems, try setting automatic_replot=0.
>>>> 
>>>> Joe
>>> I have 2.1.71 version and octave-forge is also installed. I followed your
>>> instructions but the problem remained. What I dont understand is that other
>>> mfiles work pretty well with the same syntax for plot command.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Doug:
>>>> The plot command automatically starts up GNUPLOT  and sends the
>>>> info to 
>>>> it through a pipe.
>>>> 
>>>> If after you have drawn a plot you then close GNUPLOT and try to
>>>> plot 
>>>> another plot it will act like you have reported.  So the solution
>>>> is to 
>>>> leave GNUPLOT there and let octave handle GNUPLOT.
>>>> 
>>>> If you have shut down GNUPLOT then you must restart Octave to get
>>>> it 
>>>> back again.
>>>> Doug
>>> I am sorry for being so beginner I do not even know how to close gnuplot. If
>>> you think the commented line of the previous version of my mfile, so I
>>> deleted
>>> all close command from my file (this is a heritage from matlab:), restarted
>>> octave and the problem remained.
>>> 
>>> I am very confused because it sometimes works, sometimes doesnot, I feel
>>> myself very silly. Roughly I might say that plot command works pretty well
>>> at
>>> the command line + in all other mfiles I have with the only exception I
>>> mentioned last time. So I thought if some of you might have a good idea
>>> where
>>> to start searching my mistakes...
>>> 
>>> thank you again
>>> 
>>> Klári
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> 
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