Re: terminal type dumb (MacPorts)

[Vic Norton]

I'm running Octave-3.4.3 on a Mac, ported via the MacPorts "octave-devel". 
There is no doc command in my version of Octave. For example the command
  octave> doc svd
just produces the message
  info: /opt/local/share/info/octave.info: No such file or directory
On the other hand
  octave> help svd
gives lots of information:
 `svd' is a function from the file
  /opt/local/lib/octave/3.4.3/oct/x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0/svd.oct

  -- Loadable Function: S = svd (A)
  -- Loadable Function: [U, S, V] = svd (A)
  -- Loadable Function: [U, S, V] = svd (A, ECON)
  ...
I just figured Octave had done away with the "doc" command. Perhaps I am wrong.

Regards,

Vic

On Oct 29, 2011, at 3:17 PM, nitnit wrote:

> Jack Tanner wrote:
>> 
>> Sorry if this has been documented, but I can't find the answer.
>> 
>> Using the Octave-3.4.2-mingw build by Nitzan Arazi, how can I get access 
>> to the Octave manual? The doc command complains info: Terminal type 
>> `dumb' is not smart enough to run Info. I don't care if I'm using info 
>> or not; I'd be fine with a command that tells my web browser to open an 
>> HTML version of the manual, for example.
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> 
> Recent packaged octave version octave3.4.3 (see sec 1.3 of
> http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?OctaveForWindows) includes all the
> documentation in both html and pdf formats.
> 
> The docs are located in the doc\octave subit of the tree.
> 
> Previous packaged (7z) version 3.4.2 didn't include these docs, but you can
> download them as separate zip archives (octave-3.4.2.pdf.zip,
> octave-3.4.2.html.zip) from Tatsuros site in
> http://www.tatsuromatsuoka.com/octave/Eng/Win/.
> 
> Nitzan