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install script problem with OS/2 version


From: Wonkoo Kim
Subject: install script problem with OS/2 version
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 97 20:41:10 -0500

I just got octave 2.02 from Hobbes.nmsu.edu.
However, its installaion script inst-octave.cmd is almost unusable for
me.  inst-octave.cmd has many problems that
 - it failed to parse config.sys line if it start with blank spaces.
 - it stopped with just blank screen during installation without 
    message (I know why.  It was when prompting for a user input, but 
    stdio was redirected to NUL in the .cmd script.  Removing screen 
    log messages during installation seems to be not a good idea.)
 - it tried to delete octave\* files (I unpacked under \math\octave\)
 - unzip needs '-o' option. (I unpacked package over old octave dir.)
 - Even if config.sys had correct settings, it created new 
    config.sys but with wrong duplicated octave paths.
 - it assumes that INFOPATH is a single path and ends with '/',
   but this assumption is wrong. (e.g. INFOPATH=.;d:/lib/gnuinfo)
 - I touched .cmd here and there, but it still wasn't perfect.
    I didn't bother myself more with this script and decided to go for
    manual installation.

Anyway, I thank Klaus Gebhardt for this OS/2 version.

A question:
---------------
G:\tmp>octave
Octave 2.0.2 for OS/2 2.x and Warp.
(Patchlevel 2.02-b01).
Copyright (C) 1996 John W. Eaton.
OS/2-Port by Klaus Gebhardt, 1996 - 1997.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details, type `warranty'.

error: No such file or directory
octave:1>
-----------------

Why do I have "error: No such ..." line in the above?

(Where is the proper place for octaverc?  I had it in 
octave\scripts\startup\, but copying it to .octaverc or to HOME dir 
didn't remove the error message.  However octave is working well.)

//--------------------------------------------------------------------
// Wonkoo Kim (address@hidden)



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