Re: waitforbuttonpress patch install

[David Bateman]

Nose Nada wrote:
> Thanks Ben and David. I have several question about your suggestions:
> - Once I get the code from the octave-forge SVN repository do I need to
> compile Octave from source or can I paste the code from the SVN repository
> into a given subdirectory of my current Octave installation. Given the file
> extension of these files, .m, I would say that no recompilation is required.
>   
Correct. These are m-files, no recompile should be needed.

> - If I were required to compile Octave from source where do I place the code
> from the SVN repository?
>   
Where you want with the "--prefix" flag.

> - I have scan the octave-forge CVS repository but with little success to
> locate the code for waitforbuttonpress.m (together with ginput.m and maybe
> gtext.m). Would you give me a hint?
>   
http://octave.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/octave/trunk/octave-forge/main/plot/inst/

> David, I'm working on Fedora 8, thus I suppose that your concerns about
> Windows and Mac do not apply. Do they?
>   
Should work fine with the X11 terminal.

> I apologize for making several questions, with a likely high level
> incoherence, but I'm new to this Linux/Octave world.
> I look forward to hear from you.
> Best regards,
> Omar
>
>   


D.


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