Re: Starting Octave Windows XP

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

Hi Michael J. McCann

As David pointed out, the white space can be treated in the octave-MSVC.
Problems for the white space might ocurr inside the system.
I found that mkoctfile.m cannot be worked correcly, if the  octave-MSVC is 
installed to the
folder whose name has white spaces.
Therefore I do not recommed to install octave to the folder "C:\Program Files". 

However path related functions can be used with space with a little care, 
if the path name is quated by ' ' and command style with () as David pointed 
out.

Use of " (double quatation) requires care.
In case of double quatation, you have to write \ as \\ like C language.
cd ("C:\\Documents and Settings\\Tatsu")

So usually, please use  ' '.

However the like following case, path name comes from a string variable,     
use of " " is possible.
octave.exe:8> a="programs"
a = programs
octave.exe:9> sprintf("C:\\%s",a)
ans = C:\programs
octave.exe:10> cd (sprintf("C:\\%s",a))
octave.exe:11> pwd
ans = C:\programs

In the following case, you never use '\' but use '\\'.

Regards

Tatsuro


--- David Bateman <address@hidden> wrote:

> Michael J. McCann wrote:
> > Tatsuro,
> >          Thank you for your help. I also got some pointers from 
> > others (a very helpful community!) and I can see what you did, so 
> > that is helpful. It looks as if I'm trapped by the inability of 
> > Octave to follow CD instructions when the folder names contain 
> > spaces. I don't give files or folders such names, but Windows XP Home 
> > does and, what's more, it doesn't list the short form in DOS command 
> > window DIR listings.
> >          Maybe you have a way to avoid it or your system is better set up.
> > Thank you,
> > Mike.
> >   
> 
> try
> 
> cd('Path with spaces')
> 
> D.
> 
> 
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