Re: Windows network installation

[Mark Veraar]

Tom,

>From your mail, I understand the following:
I must install octave in the directory c:\gnu\octave, because otherwise
there will be problems.

What I don't understand is that Octave works on my windows 2000 computer and
doesn't work on my windows XP computer, when installing ooctave NOT in the
c:\gnu\octave directory.

And even if I install octave in the c:\gnu\octave directory, I still have
the same problems as in every other directory on my Windows XP computer.

Has there ever been someone who installed octave-windows-2000oct25d.exe
without any problems on windows XP?

I hope you can help,
Mark


> Mark,
>
> What you are calling "The Octave Window" is a program called RXVT - thus
the
> commandling starting with rxvt....
>
> the -e octave tells rxvt to execute octave, but I am guessing since you
are
> having path problems that it can not find the octave binary, and thus
closes.
>
> The reason for your path problems is because you changed your root
directory
> w/o modifying your $PATH.  This is really going to screw everything up.
Here
> is the problem. Befor you had changed root you had the following:
>
> C:\gnu\octave == /
> therefor
> C:\gnu\octave\bin == /bin
> C:\gnu\octave\usr == /usr
> C:\gnu\octave\etc == /etc
> C:\gnu\octave\tmp == /tmp
> and so on
>
> Now you have the following
> C:\ == /
> therefore
> C:\gnu\octave\bin == /gnu/octave/bin
> C:\gnu\octave\usr == /gnu/octave/usr
> C:\gnu\octave\etc == /gnu/octave/etc
> C:\gnu\octave\tmp == /gnu/octave/tmp
>
> If I remember right your $PATH looks something like
>
> PATH="/bin:/usr/local/bin";
>
>
> >> This is because of the command
> >> "\bin\bash" --login start
> >> in the octave.bat file. Windows XP doesn't understand
> >> \bin\bash
> >> but does understand
> >> bin\bash
>
> This does not have anything to do w/ XP, it is because not
>
> /bin/bash == C:\bin\bash, which does not exist, but if you are already in
> C:\gnu\octave bin/bash == ./bin/bash == C:\gnu\octave\bin\bash whis of
course
> does exist.
>
> The same goes for 'start' and 'rxvt' as well it is looking for
C:\bin\start
> and C:\bin\rxvt\.
>
>
> There is a bunch of way that you could go about fixing this - many of
which
> are very complicated, and will probably be a waste of time.  I suggest
> returning you root directory to C:\gun\octave, and using Andy's advise to
> change to other directories.
>
> if C:\gnu\octave == /
>
> you can still type cd c:/ to goto c:\
>
> or
>
> cd c:/windows to goto c:\windows and so on...
>
> you can even use cd d:\my\dir to goto d:/my/dir
>
> then cd / to goto back to c:\gnu\octave
>
>
> It is just so much easier that way.
>
> hope that helped,
>
> Tom Weichmann
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Strange!?
> >
> > So finally I tried the (long) command in the start file from the bin
> > directroy:
> > rxvt -fn "Courier New-14" -tn linux -title "GNU Octave 2.1.31" -n "GNU
> > Octave" +sr -sl 1000 -e octave
> >
> > Then something happens! I think the octave window opens and then closes
in
> > less than 1/10 second.
> >
> > What happened?
> >
> > regards,
> > Mark Veraar
>
>
>



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