Re: Help for beginner

[James Sherman Jr.]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Enrico Lammers <address@hidden> wrote:

Hello,

Couldn't find it in the documentation. Could you please help?

I want to run a file called vaporizer.m in GNU Octave on a Mac, but couldn't get it running. My colleague is running it under windows where it runs fine.

First I had the vaporizer.m on my desktop and dragged it into the GNU Octave terminal screen but after typing vaporizer, the following appears: parse error syntax error

When I copy the file to the path: /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin

the following message appears: undefined near line 1 column 1

Please advise

Met vriendelijke groet/kind regards,

Ing. Enrico Lammers

I don't know anything about dragging and dropping, but if you have the 
file at path_to_file/vaporizer.m

Then, you can try either (in Octave)
> cd path_to_file
or
> addpath path_to_file
then typing
> vaporizer

What happens when you do this?