Re: Installing/configuring MXE-Octave under Windows 7

[Markus Bergholz]

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 8:35 PM, David <address@hidden> wrote:

Thanks, I'll try that, but the error message doesn't indicate that the program wasn't found. I think the problem is that I've got some other software installed that also comes with a 'less' program, and it precedes Octave in the Windows path variable.

So you even don't have tried it?

 

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Markus Bergholz <address@hidden> wrote:

Am 07.05.2014 18:38 schrieb "Markus Bergholz" <address@hidden>:

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> Am 07.05.2014 18:30 schrieb "David" <address@hidden>:
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> > Hi!
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> > I recently installed MXE-Octave v3.8.1 under Windows 7 (64 bit) and in general it's working, but whenever I enter anything in the command window that returns more than one page of output, I get the following error:
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> > less: Unknown option -X
> > Usage: less [-ceisS] [-A|-u] [-n #] [-t tag] [-p pos_cmd] [-P prompt] [-U[[c][p][l|b|8|
> > o|a]]] [file ...]
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> > Is there something I have to do to configure the 'less' utility correctly? I ran the command 'less -?' from a DOS shell command window, and '-X' is listed as a valid option.
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> Add "C:\octave_portable\octave-3.8.1\bin" to the windows "PATH"... If this is your install dir.
> Another and more flexible variant is using the .bat file mentioned in the wiki and linked on mxeoctave.osuv.de

This one
http://mxeoctave.osuv.de/w8-octave-gui.bat

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> > Thanks.
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