Re: help is giving errors

[Michael Goffioul]

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 3:42 AM, bharat pathak <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>     If I say,,
>
>    > help plot
>
>    I get the following error,
>
>    AllocationBase 0x0, Baseaddress 0x715B0000, RegionSize 0x150000, State
> 0x10000
>    D:\install\octave\msys\bin\sed.exe: *** couldn't reserve space for
> cygwin's heap
>    win32 error 0
>
>    D:\install\octave\share\octave\3.0.1\m\plot\plot.m
>
> ==================================================================
>
>    What could be the problem? I am running octave-3.0.1 on windows vista
> home edition.
>
>    The exe was downloaded from octave-forge (non-cygwin version).
>
>    Do I need to install cygwin for help to function properly??

No. The message is confusing, because msys is re-using some code from
cygwin project, but you don't need cygwin.

This does not solve your problem, but at the moment, I can't figure
out why this is happening.

Michael.