Re: Using the Symbolic Package

[Thomas D. Dean]

On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 18:30 -0700, Thomas D. Dean wrote:

There seems to be some disconnect between path, autoload, PKG_ADD, and
symbols.oct.  Symbols.oct is in the output of path and autoload.  Any
function in 'autoload' that is related to symbols.oct is not found.  The
others are.

Addiional information:

Octave 3.0.1

symbols.oct is in octave's path.

# path
.
/home/tomdean/octave/symbolic-1.0.8/i486-pc-linux-gnu-api-v32
/usr/local/share/octave/site-m
...

# ls /home/tomdean/octave/symbolic-1.0.8/i486-pc-linux-gnu-api-v32
PKG_ADD  symbols.oct

# autoload
...
[116]= sym 
...
[116]= /home/tomdean/octave/symbolic-1.0.8/i486-pc-linux-gnu-api-v32/symbols.oct
...

lookfor finds sym and symbols.

# lookfor("symbols")
who                  List currently defined symbols matching the given
patterns.
symbols              
findsymbols          
findsym              Find symbols in expression F and return them
                     comma-separated in string VARS.
dec2base             Return a string of symbols in base B corresponding
                     to the nonnegative integer N.

# lookfor("sym")
...
who                  List currently defined symbols matching the given
patterns.
symbols              
findsymbols          
is_sym               
sym                  
syminfo              
symlsolve            
poly2sym             Creates a symbolic polynomial expression P with
                     coefficients C.
...

Those in symbols.oct do not seem to have help strings???

What can I do to solve this?

tomdean