Re: Path?/dispatch error on starting Octave but path works

[Paul Kienzle]

Maybe the solution is to put the following function in  
octave-forge/main/miscellaneous/dispatch.m:

function dispatch(name,to,given), warning("dispatch unavailable: use %s  
%s(%s)",to,name,given); end

That way, if dispatch is unavailable, at least the user knows about it.

For now you could put it in your ~/.octaverc file.  Hopefully packages  
use the internal name internally so that they will still work without  
dispatch, but I haven't checked.

Paul Kienzle
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On May 28, 2004, at 6:21 PM, Henry F. Mollet wrote:

> I found that I had all octave-forge functions on my desktop and there  
> was no
> need to download them, e.g. rat.m. Therefore, I've added a recursive  
> path
> using two slashes at the end and rat.m in the directory
> /many/many/directories/octave-forge/general was *indeed found*.  
> However, my
> Octave 2.1.46, on start-up, now complains with a dispatch error. It  
> does not
> like the two slashes but won't do a recursive search with only one  
> slash.
> What is the problem?
> Henry
>
> GNU Octave, version 2.1.46 (powerpc-apple-darwin6.6).
> Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 John W.  
> Eaton.
>
> error: `dispatch' undefined near line 2 column 1
> error: near line 2 of file
> `/Users/mollet/Desktop/usr/local/share/octave/2.1.55/site/m/octave- 
> forge/com
> m//PKG_ADD'
> error: evaluating assignment expression near line 2, column 10
> error: near line 2 of file `/Users/mollet/.octaverc'
>
> octave:1> path
> LOADPATH contains the following directories:
>   /sw/share/doc/octave/examples
>   /Users/mollet/CandO/epstk2
>    
> /Users/mollet/Desktop/usr/local/share/octave/2.1.55/site/m/octave- 
> forge//
>
> octave:2> x=rand
> x = 0.38021
> octave:3> [n,d]=rat(x)
> n =   73
> d =   192
>
> [~] tcsh:29> vi .octaverc
>       1 %% My octaverc
>       2 LOADPATH = [LOADPATH,
> ":/sw/share/doc/octave/examples:/Users/mollet/CandO/epstk2:/User
> s/mollet/Desktop/usr/local/share/octave/2.1.55/site/m/octave-forge//"];
>
> N.B. I believe that the first ":" is a default path which was supplied  
> when
> using Fink for the installation of Octave and must include /sw/bin, the
> location of "octave", alias for the octave-2.1.46 application, so that  
> my
> octave application will get loaded when I type "octave" at the shell  
> prompt.
>
>
>
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