as far as i know, the octave for win32 is a bit dated. whats this you
said about somebody porting a newer version? cause i'd love the
convenience. (if you only knew what i've been through the past month
trying to get linux on this old crappy laptop just to use octave.
On 6/4/07, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 16:05 Mon 04 Jun , address@hidden wrote:
> > I would like to run Octave from a DVD,
> > along the lines of what I have done for some other software
> > at http://potis.org/software/livedvd .
> > Following recent threads in the maintainer list on relocatable
> > octave, for example, it seems this may be possible. Is the Win32
> > binary posted by Michael Goffioul for testing this weekend capable
> > of being installed in this way?
> I got to the lab and tried this. Installation was every smooth.
> I was able to launch octave.exe from a the command prompt in Windows NT
> from the installation on my flash drive.
>
> However, there is a problem with the interface to Emacs. I am using
> GNU Emacs 22.0.990.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
> of 2007-05-20 on NEUTRINO
>
> M-x run-octave hangs emacs with emacs and octave showing in the NT process
> list.
>
> Launching Octave from M-x shell or M-x eshell launches Octave. Octave
> appears to work, I can type in simple examples, but there is no prompt.
> Presumably the problem with the octave inferior process mode is that Emacs
> never gets the prompt it is waiting for.
>
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