Re: installation on windows 98

[Tom Weichmann]

José,

I am one of the origional developers of the windows version of octave.  There 
is a problem with the instalition process that we have never been able to 
fix.  It does not seem to be on any certen platform, as all versions of 
Windows are affected, and it is very random.  The problem is that when the 
installer tries to untar  some of the files needed to be installed windows 
does not allow it enough environment space, and the install process dies.  It 
still says that the install was successfull, but this is not true.  I have no 
idea why this happens, or really how to fix it :(

If you have not already try this : add the following to your
config.sys and reboot

shell=C:\Command.com /e:4096 /p

please let me know if this helps,

Tom Weichmann

On Wednesday, August 15, 2001 05:11 am, José Mª Lamarca Capa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I downloaded the octave-windows-2000oct25d.exe file from sourceforge.net
> and although the installation seemed to work fine and I got a message of
> 'installation was successful', I can not get the program to work. Clicking
> on the 'octave.bat' file or on the screen icon (it appears now but it
> seemed not to do that on the first trials of installation) gives an OS2
> screen with the message 'invalid command or file name' (translation from
> spanish). I read through the help mailing list where I found people with
> similar problems and I tried some of the hints given with no success. In
> some of the responses there were many web sites referenced that no longer
> exist. I would be very grateful if someone could help me out.



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