Re: Need start up help

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

--- On Tue, 2014/4/29, Ilmar Luik  wrote:

> I am first time user of 
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> RFE.  1  Octave-Forge on Windows 7 professional 64 bit machine. 
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> REF.  2  GNU Octave  Beginner’s Guide by  Jesper Schmidt  Hansen published 
> 2011
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> CURRENT STATUS
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> I am first time user  of REF. 1 Therefore  lease excuse my ignorance of not 
> knowing how to get started.
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> Somehow I got   REF 1  downloaded  
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> and attempt to get started  in accordance with the instructions on page  18 
> of REF. 2
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What version octave for windows did you install?

>From the message at edit command " Response     Load library failed. ",  I 
>suspect that you are using
3.8.1 (MinGW) (http://mxeoctave.osuv.de/)


> First step advices      octave:1> cd C:
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> Next                              octave:2>  cd “ Documents and Settings”
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> Next                              octave:3>  mkdir  “GNU Octave
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> Reponse                      ans = 0
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mkdir  “GNU Octave
You forgot close the quotation.
mkdir  “GNU Octave"

However I do not recommend to manipulate the directory (folder) name of which 
has white space for octave.

I recommend to use 

mkdir "GNUOctave"
or
mkdir "GNU_Octave"
. 

 
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> This indicates that an error occurred 
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> Next I entered           Octave:4>  edit
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> Response     Load library failed. Make  “Runtime Library setting of this 
> project as  “Multi-threaded(/MT)”
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>                           May cure his problem 

I have not noticed this because I do not use edit command. 

> I started all over and entered  the above recommend response into octave:2
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> It responded   No such a file or directory.
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> What would you recommend to do about it or what books should I buy.



Current I do not know good instruction book of octave for beginners.
First thing, what I recommend you to do is to read octave manual.
Octave-3.8.1 for windows ships for html and pdf style.
You can access them form the Start menu.

> 
> The intended use for the Octave program is to support mathematics that is 
> required for analyzing radar systems.
> 
> Typically comprised of plotting  2 and 3 dimensional  equations containing 
> real and imaginary numbers. 
> 

Good luck!

Tatsuro

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