Re: installing java and apache for using spreadsheet I/O

[Markus Bergholz]

Am 15.06.2014 23:05 schrieb "PhilipNienhuis" <address@hidden>:
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> rcharan51 wrote
>
> First of all please don't top-post. Answer below the mail. That makes it
> easier to follow discussions. Thanks,
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> > Thank you very much for the reply. Your prediction is correct, i am using
> > octave3.8.1 (with io 2.2.2) from( http://mxeoctave.osuv.de/)
> > on windows8.1 on which i am not able to install java package so i am
> > trying
> > to install 3.8 on windows xp so do you think xlsread and
> > xlswrite are going to work on windows XP ?
>
> The actual windows version doesn't matter much. The issue is with that
> binary from http://mxeoctave.osuv.de/ using the Java-based interfaces. It's
> maker didn't bother to include Java support into the build.

3.8.1-4 is build with enabled-java, but I haven't tried it myself.

>
> However:
> - For .xlsx (Excel 2007+) (and .ods and .gnumeric) you do not need any extra
> SW. Read/write will work out of the box using io-2.2.2 (but I now that I
> mention, think I fixed a bug for it lately, that fix will be in upcoming
> io-2.2.3) - just try.
>
> - If you got Excel installed, all you need to do is install the windows
> package (and after installation, load it). Then you can read any file
> supported by Excel itself.
>
> In the Octave installation directory there's a subdir src/ that contains
> that package, plus a build script build_packages.m that installs a few more
> packages.
> Remember to load the required packages using "pkg load <package-name>"
> (don't include version number).
>
> Philip
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