copyfile() not working on my new Win7 PC

[Tim Rueth]

I recently got a new Windows 7 PC and installed Octave 3.2.3 on it.  I ran one of my tried-and-true scripts on it, and I get an odd message when it tries to execute a copyfile() instruction near the end of the script.  Here are relevant parts of the code:

 

tempfile = ["temp.txt"];

fid = fopen(tempfile, "wt");

...

foo = 10;

<write some stuff to the file>

...

fclose(fid);

resfilename = ["thisrun" num2str(foo,"%2d") ".txt"];

copyfile(tempfile,resfilename);

 

When I run this script on my Vista machine, it runs fine.  But when I run it on my Win7 machine, this is what I get right after the copyfile command is executed:

 

         0 [main] us 0 init_cheap: VirtualAlloc pointer is null, Win32 error 487

AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress 0x71110000, RegionSize 0x290000, State 0x10000

C:\Octave\3.2.3_gcc-4.4.0\MSYS\bin\cp.exe: ***Couldn't reserve space for

cygwin's heap, Win32 error 0

 

So, it looks like it couldn't copy the file because it couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap.  Not sure what that means or what I can do to fix it.  Note, tempfile is not a large file.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks,

 

--Tim