Re: Windows network installation

[Tom Weichmann]

Mark,

This version of octave for windows was developed before Windows XP was around.  
It is based on the Cygwin windows - Unix emulation project [www.cygwin.com].  
I have seen a few people talking about Windows XP, but I really do not follow 
Cygwin's progress anymore.  You might want to the Cygwin web site, and find 
out how well Cygwin works with XP.  It maybe that the version of cygwin 
included with the octave for windows package is too old, and does not work 
w/XP.  In that case you could just install a full version of Cygwin, and then 
compile Octave yourself.  Since you are looking for such a specialized 
install, that is probably the way to go.

Tom Weichmann

On Friday 26 July 2002 03:15 am, Mark Veraar wrote:
> 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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