Re: Octave on Windows

[Michael Grossbach]

Divakar Ramachandran wrote:
> Is there someplace where the Windows specific directories / folders are
> described? I have been looking for info on the correct place to put the
> startup commands which on Linux / Unix systems go into .octave. By trial
> and error I have found that the file .octaverc is read and executed on
> startup on WinXP when placed directly at Documents and Settings\Username
> though there is a empty folder named octave at this location. Further,
> it is impossible to create a file named .octaverc through Win Explorer.
> I created a file octaverc using the GUI and subsequently renamed it
> to .octaverc using the command-line.

To my knowledge there no such place but the mail archives where you can 
probably get all the information you need. There's not much difference 
though to the described *nix way.
The function edit looks for a folder named octave in your %USERPROFILE% 
(to find out what the system variable %USERPROFILE% contains, open a 
command window and type echo %USERPROFILE%) and creates it if it doesn't 
exist. That's the place where all your user-defined functions go by 
default. Put your .cotaverc into the same folder (that's %USERPROFILE%, 
not %USERPROFILE%\octave !) in which you can then change the default 
path to save your user-defined functions, e.g.:

mypath = "D:\myOctavefcns";
addpath(genpath(mypath))


HTH, Michael