Re: How to get Octave.app to work?

[Matthias Brennwald]

On 03.09.2007, at 19:03, address@hidden wrote:

> Macintosh only.

Are you sure?

> I am trying to get the octave-2.9.13 in Octave.app to run from within
> a perl  script. Before I get into that I am stymied by an error I get
> from octave-2.9.9. Can anyone tell me what is going wrong?
>
> Here's the problem in its simplest form.
>
> Test 1. From terminal I execute
>     vic$ /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave
> This gets me into octave-2.9.13. Now I execute
>     octave-2.9.13> printf("%d\n", fopen ("~/desktop/
> octave_output.txt", "wt"));
> The output is
>     3

You've just opened the file with write access...

> Test 2. From terminal I execute
>     vic$ /usr/local/bin/octave
> This gets me into octave-2.9.9. Now I execute
>     octave> printf("%d\n", fopen ("~/desktop/octave_output.txt",  
> "wt"));
> The output is
>     -1

...and you're trying to open the same file with write access again. I  
guess that might explain why this second call to fopen is not  
successful. Not sure, though.

Cheers
Matthias


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