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Re: Fw: Unusual slowness with octave 2.1.42 for windows


From: Tom Weichmann
Subject: Re: Fw: Unusual slowness with octave 2.1.42 for windows
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:56:39 -0700
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I would not worry, I have been following Cygwin/Octave for years, and this 
seems to happen every so often.  It is almost always fixed by the following 
release - as long as someone brings it up on the Cygwin list.


Tom Weichmann



On Tuesday 17 June 2003 04:56 am, Agustin Barto wrote:
> The latest versions of cygwin and/or octave don't work well on Windows9x/ME
> computers. I tried everything and counldn't get it to work as it does on
> Windows2k/XP. The only thing that worked was going back to an old version
> of both octave (2.1.36) and cygwin.
>
> I don't know who's to blame for these problems (most likely cygwin), but I
> hope they get fixed some day. Almost all of our computers in the lab are
> win9x/me based and I hate being stuck with old software.
>
> Agustin
>
> On Monday 16 June 2003 11:55 pm, Bob Bailey wrote:
> > I have been using 2.1.42 for a couple of months and recently
> > downloaded and installed Cygwin/Octave 2.1.49.
> > Previously I used 2.1.36 for a month or two.
> >
> > The 42 version takes a long time to start up on my two
> > PIII/Windows 98se machines, but comes up fast on a
> > PIII/Windows 2000 machine.  None are running Novell.
> >
> > The two 98se machines have Norton Works/Firewall installed,
> > but disabling makes no difference.  None has Novell.
> >
> > Also both the 42 and 49 versions of Octave take a long time
> > (30 to 40 seconds) to respond to basic commands on the 98se
> > machines.  For example,
> > dir or help XXX.  Also the 49 version pops up a half dozen
> > "This program has executed an illegal operation at .." messages.
> > But, it continues to run (if you call it running).  It does not shut
> > down.
> >
> > The 42 version on the Win 2000 machine does not have the
> > command delay.  The 49 version is not installed on the Win 2000
> > machine.
> >
> > To start the 49 ver, I double click on the Cygwin desktop icon,
> > then type octave.  I tried starting octave from Windows Explorer
> > by double clicking on drive:\Cygwin\bin\octave-2.1.49.exe,
> > but that just locks up the computer, necessitating a reboot.
> >
> > Bob Bailey
> > address@hidden
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Steven D Ratts" <address@hidden>
> > To: <address@hidden>
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 9:07 AM
> > Subject: Re: Unusual slowness with octave 2.1.42 for windows
> >
> > > I tried launching the actual executable directly, but that had no
> > > better result than when double clicking on the icon.
> > >
> > > Bummer,
> > > Steve
> > >
> > > Steven D Ratts
> > > 520.794.3692 Desk
> > > 520.794.5815 FAX
> > > 520.489.8916 Pager
> > > address@hidden
> > >
> > >
> > > As a matter of fact I am using Novell.  I'm not at my desk at the
> > > moment, but I'll try your suggestion when I get back there.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Steve
> > >
> > > Steven D Ratts
> > > 520.794.3692 Desk
> > > 520.794.5815 FAX
> > > 520.489.8916 Pager
> > > address@hidden
> > >
> > >                       Andy Adler
> > >
> > >                       <address@hidden         To:      Steven D Ratts
> > > <address@hidden>
> > >                       awa.ca>                  cc:
> > > address@hidden
> > >                                                Subject: Re: Unusual
> > > slowness with octave 2.1.42 for windows
> > >                       06/16/2003 05:35
> > >
> > >                       PM
> > >
> > > I've seen installs of octave-2.1.42 that start up very slowly.
> > > I haven't seen the other problems you mention. My current
> > > theory is that its a combination of Novell and the run.exe starter
> > > executable (run.exe prevents the popup dos box with shortcuts).
> > >
> > > Are you using Novell?
> > >
> > > Could you try running octave-2.1.42.exe directly? ie Go to
> > > C:\program files\Gnu Octave 2.1.42\bin\ and click on the exe.
> > >
> > > andy
> >
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