Re: help

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 12:26 AM, sw007 <address@hidden> wrote:
> Dear users,
>
> I am new to Octave and am having trouble with "diary" function.  I could use
> "diary on", but when I put in
> diary my_script.diary
> It returns error message:
> error: sprintf: wrong type argument `cell'
> error: called from:
>>>>error:   diary at line 9, column 8
> I have tried to put quotation marks and parentethis, but nothing works. The
> same command works find when I tried it on matlab on a different computer.
> Also, I am using Ubunbu, not sure if it is relevant.
> On a related note, when I try to use "publish" command, I get similar
> errors:
> error: sprintf: wrong type argument `cell'
> error: called from:
>>>>error:   diary at line 9, column 8
> error:   /usr/share/octave/packages/3.2/miscellaneous-1.0.11/publish.m at
> line
> 301, column 3
> error:   /usr/share/octave/packages/3.2/miscellaneous-1.0.11/publish.m at
> line
> 273, column 19
> error:   /usr/share/octave/packages/3.2/miscellaneous-1.0.11/publish.m at
> line
> 139, column 5
> I would appreciate it a lot if someone could point out what is wrong. Thanks
> in advance.
>
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What version of Octave are you using?
In 3.4.3-rc0 I can't reproduce your error.

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M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal
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University of Zürich
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