Can GNU octave work with STATEYE

[MEASOR,GRAHAME]

We are using STATeye, http://www.stateye.org/ to interface with MATLAB.
I cannot always get access to our MATLAB license and I tried copying the
files generated by STATEYE to the GNU-Octave area and running the main.m
there. I put Octave in MATLAB mode and fixed the basic problems. After
that things got much more complex, see results below:- 

__________________________output from octave__________________________
>> STATEYE
>> pwd
/octave_files/STATEYE/StatEye_script
>> path

Octave's search path contains the following directories:

  ../templates
  ../Models
  ../Results
  .
  /usr/lib/octave/2.1.73/site/oct/i686-pc-cygwin//
  /usr/lib/octave/site/oct/api-v13/i686-pc-cygwin//
  /usr/lib/octave/site/oct/i686-pc-cygwin//
  /usr/share/octave/2.1.73/site/m//
  /usr/share/octave/site/api-v13/m//
  /usr/share/octave/site/m//
  /usr/lib/octave/2.1.73/oct/i686-pc-cygwin//
  /usr/share/octave/2.1.73/m//

>> main
Running main. StatEye version 3.0f
Tx signal is "ideal_pulse"
Pk to Pk Tx_RJ=0.150, BER=1.00e-15, RMS=0.0094
warning: in /octave_files/STATEYE/StatEye_script/interpChannels.m near
line 32,      column 19:
warning: unrecognized escape sequence `\w' -- converting to `w'
warning: unrecognized escape sequence `\s' -- converting to `s'
warning: unrecognized escape sequence `\s' -- converting to `s'
warning: unrecognized escape sequence `\s' -- converting to `s'
warning: unrecognized escape sequence `\s' -- converting to `s'
warning: unrecognized escape sequence `\s' -- converting to `s'
warning: unrecognized escape sequence `\s' -- converting to `s'
warning: unrecognized escape sequence `\s' -- converting to `s'
warning: unrecognized escape sequence `\s' -- converting to `s'
warning: unrecognized escape sequence `\s' -- converting to `s'
warning: unrecognized escape sequence `\s' -- converting to `s'
warning: unrecognized escape sequence `\s' -- converting to `s'
warning: fopen: default open mode is now binary Reading s2p
file:../Models/Channels/p4_s2params/thru_TXP_040309/S13.s2p
error: regexp: empty (sub)expression in pattern ()
error: evaluating while command near line 78, column 5
error: evaluating for command near line 49, column 1
error: called from `read_p4_s2params' in file
`/octave_files/STATEYE/StatEye_scr     ipt/read_p4_s2params.m'
error: evaluating if command near line 31, column 1
error: called from `interpChannels' in file
`/octave_files/STATEYE/StatEye_scrip     t/interpChannels.m'
error: evaluating assignment expression near line 27, column 11
error: evaluating if command near line 25, column 1
error: called from `verifyAndWriteResults' in file
`/octave_files/STATEYE/StatEy     e_script/verifyAndWriteResults.m'
error: evaluating if command near line 107, column 1
error: called from `main' in file
`/octave_files/STATEYE/StatEye_script/main.m'
>> [data,param] = read_p4_s2params(param, param.p4_s2p_channel_data);
error: `param' undefined near line 4 column 34
error: evaluating argument list element number 1
>> 
_________________________end of Octave
output_______________________________________________________

Is there a script that can make Octave more compatible with MATLAB for
this application?



Regards Grahame Measor
Avago Technologies
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