Re: How to print from the Octave Shell?

[Michael Grossbach]

Carlo de Falco wrote:
> On 29 Jan 2009, at 14:45, Adriana Bustillos wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Sorry for my basic question but I am new in the octave world.
> > I would like to know how can I print from the shell?? I run my  
> > program and see my results in the black screen. How can I print  
> > those results?
> > Thank you for your help.
>
> I assume from your mention of the "black screen" you are running  
> Octave under windows, right?
> I do not use windows myself, but an approach that would work on any  
> systes is the "diary" command :
>
>  >> diary on  ## start recording session to the diary file
>  >> ## do some calculations and print results to screen
>  >> diary off ## stop recording
>  >> edit diary
>
> and you should see a text file in your favourite editor showing all  
> your commands and their results that you can edit and/or print as any  
> other text file.
> for more info type "help diary" at the octave prompt.
>
> HTH,
> c.
octave-3.0.3.exe:5> edit diary
error: unable to edit a built-in or compiled function
error: in
D:\Anwenderprog\Octave\share\octave\3.0.3\m\miscellaneous\edit.m near
line 185, column 7:

> > > error ("unable to edit a built-in or compiled function");


keyboard: stopped in
D:\Anwenderprog\Octave\share\octave\3.0.3\m\miscellaneous\e
dit.m at line 185
debug>

Instead of editing diary from within Octave I'd open the diary file with
an editor as notepad.exe or - even better - Scite using the Windows
Explorer context menue "Open with..."-command.

HTH, Michael