Re: Help Installing Control Tool Box for Windows Vista

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

Hello

Octave 3.2.0 for Windows MinGW32 includes control-1.0.11 package so that you 
need not install it.

See
GNU Octave, version 3.2.0
Copyright (C) 2009 John W. Eaton and others.
This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  For details, type `warranty'.

Octave was configured for "i686-pc-mingw32".

 :
 :

octave.exe:2>pkg list
Package Name       | Version | Installation directory
-------------------+---------+-----------------------
            audio *|   1.1.4 | 
C:\Programs\Octave\3.2.0_gcc-4.3.0\share\octave\packages\audio-1.1.4
        benchmark *|   1.1.1 |
C:\Programs\Octave\3.2.0_gcc-4.3.0\share\octave\packages\benchmark-1.1.1
          bioinfo *|   0.1.2 | 
C:\Programs\Octave\3.2.0_gcc-4.3.0\share\octave\packages\bioinfo-0.1.2
    combinatorics *|   1.0.9 |
C:\Programs\Octave\3.2.0_gcc-4.3.0\share\octave\packages\combinatorics-1.0.9
   communications *|  1.0.10 |
C:\Programs\Octave\3.2.0_gcc-4.3.0\share\octave\packages\communications-1.0.10
          control *|  1.0.11 | 
C:\Programs\Octave\3.2.0_gcc-4.3.0\share\octave\packages\control-1.0.11

Regards

Tatsuro

--- "John J. Kelly"  wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I just installed Octave 3.2.0 and I'm running Windows Vista. I dowloaded the 
> Control Toolbox
> package named: control-1.0.11.tar.tar
> 
> However, I was informed (perhaps incorrectly) that Windows cannot handle 
> *.tar.tar files
> properly & that I should change the second extension to 'gz':
> control-1.0.11.tar.gz
> 
> Next, I attempted to install the package by entering the following command in 
> Octave:
> 
> pkg install control-1.0.11.tar.gz
> 
> The result was the following error:
> 
> "error: memory exhausted or requested size too large for range of Octave's 
> index type--trying to
> return to prompt"
> 
> I have over 90 GB free on my hard drive and about 1 GB of available RAM, so 
> I'm inclined to
> think that neither are the problem.
> 
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thank you in advance,
> 
> John
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