Re: 3.6.2 on Win7, signal pkg not in path

[Carnë Draug]

On 20 August 2012 13:04, Børge Strand-Bergesen <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Andy Buckle <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 20 August 2012 10:16, Børge Strand-Bergesen <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> I have recently installed from octave-3.6.2-vs2010-setup.exe. Signal
>>> package was selected and is installed according to pkg list. Path
>>> contains "C:\Program Files
>>> (x86)\Octave-3.6.2\share\octave\3.6.2\m\signal" but not "...
>>> share\octave\packages\signal-1.1.3".
>>>
>>> The former contains 33 files while the latter contains 134 files,
>>> including cheb.m which I use in my code.
>>>
>>> Obviously, it's easy to copy the m files around. But before I do that
>>> I'd like to know if things are like this on purpose and if there's an
>>> official way to call cheb.m and the other 133 files in that directory.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Børge
>>
>> Spaces in the path is a problem for pkg command: "Program Files". I
>> think rebuild will not work.
>>
>> does
>>
>> pkg load signal
>>
>> work?
>>
> Thanks for your quick feedback!
>
> pkg load signal actually worked on the installation with spaces. To
> stay on the safe side I reinstalled to C:\Octave-3.6.2. The program
> acts as before. After startup, cheb() is undefined. After pkg load
> signal it is available.
>
> Is there a way to make it available at startup?

avoid top posting. Bottom posting s preferd and makes things easier to
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We try to not have packages load at start up by default as we find
this a bad idea. We always have to run "pkg load whatever". But if you
want to this done automatically, you can add it to .octaverc. This can
be done for many other such as set your default text editor, graphicss
toolkit, whatever.

Carnë