Re: plot problem with 3.2.3 on Windows

[Bart Vandewoestyne]

>----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
>Van
: John W. Eaton [mailto:address@hidden
>Verzonden
: donderdag
, december
 10, 2009 08:24 AM
>Aan
: 'Benjamin Lindner'
>CC
: 'Bart Vandewoestyne', address@hidden
>Onderwerp
: Re: plot problem with 3.2.3 on Windows
>
>On 10-Dec-2009, Benjamin Lindner wrote:
>
>| > A student of mine working with Octave 3.2.3 on Windows (that's all i know)
>| > reported to me that he wasn't able to plot, and if he tried 'help plot' he
>| > got the following error message:
>| > 
>| > octave-3.2.3.exe:2:C:\Octave\3.2.3_gcc-4.4.0\bin
>| > > > help plot
>| > error: invalid use of script in index expression
>
>This kind of error usually means that you have a script .m file in the
>path that is being used instead of a function or variable somehow.
>Since a script can't produce a value, it can't be used as an index to
>another variable or an argument in a function call.
>
>| > error:   C:\Octave\3.2.3_gcc-4.4.0\share\octave\3.2.3\m\strings\strsplit.m
>| > at li
>| > ne 49, column 13
>
>Looking at this line, it's not obvious to me how this error could
>happen.
>
>jwe

For the record: my student just emailed me that he reinstalled Octave and that 
everything is working fine now.  Windows magic... ;-)

Kind regards,
Bart