Re: Octave.app for MacOSX released

[Henry F. Mollet]

Many thanks, worked like a charm on "old" iMac (400 MHz PowerPC G3) with
almost clean HD with updated Mac OS X v 10.4.10. I copied and pasted below
to computer I'm using presently with older version of Octave.

I said *almost* clean HD because I did find an old .octaverc file which
needs to be updated.
Henry 


Last login: Wed Jul  4 19:11:07 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
'/Applications/octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave'
henry-mollets-imac:~ hfm$
'/Applications/octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave'
GNU Octave, version 2.9.12
Copyright (C) 2007 John W. Eaton and others.
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'.

Octave was configured for "powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.1".

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warning: LOADPATH is no longer a built-in variable; please read the NEWS
file or type `news' for details
error: `LOADPATH' undefined near line 1 column 168
error: evaluating assignment expression near line 1, column 10
error: near line 1 of file `/Users/hfm/.octaverc'
octave-2.9.12:1> x=[1,2;3,4]
x =

   1   2
   3   4

octave-2.9.12:2> 



on 7/4/07 12:08 PM, Thomas Treichl at address@hidden wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> 
> months ago we were talking about an Octave binary release for Mac OS X users
> at 
> one of the Octave mailing-lists. Now time has come to present a first release
> candidate of Octave.app. Users that are interested in this ready-to-run binary
> package can download a compressed *.dmg image at
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2888 for either PPC or
> i386. The minimum system requirements for Octave.app are PPC OS X version 10.3
> or i386 OS X version 10.4.
> 
> NOTE: If you're a long-term user of Octave or a beginner in any case please
> read 
> the Readme.html file that comes with your *.dmg. Octave.app has some known
> limitations but also has some features that you might want to use. We also do
> know that there may be further problems at least with PPC 10.3 OS X versions
> (because it is a cross-compiled product of my own i386 Mac) that are not
> documented in the Readme.html file and we strongly need help from everybody
> fixing these bugs (so please give it a try looking for what is going wrong on
> your system). Also note that we packed the available octave-2.9.12 sources and
> not a current CVS snapshot ie. there may be problems in Octave.app that have
> already been reported at one of Octave's mailing-lists and also have already
> been fixed and can be found in the current CVS.
> 
> Finally I'd like to say,' thanks everybody who make Octave and it's packages
> even possible' and further I'd especially like to thank Paul for answering
> tons 
> of my spam I sent to him, giving me motivation to not break during this quest
> and finally hacking some code of the build-scripts that make a PPC version
> generally available.
> 
> That's it from my side,
> 
>    Thomas
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