Re: "odswrite: zip I/O error" when in different directory?

[Philip Nienhuis]

Peter P. wrote:
> * Philip Nienhuis <address@hidden> [2014-07-13 06:05]:
> > Peter P. wrote
> > > Dear list,
> > >
> > > I am having problems writing to an .ods spreadsheet file which is not
> > > in the current working directory:
> > >
> > >      retVal=odswrite("../someDir/someFile.ods", someArray, 1, "A1:Z31",
> > > "OCT")
> > >
> > > gives the following error message:
> > >
> > >      zip I/O error: No such file or directory
> > >      zip error: Could not create output file (../someDir/someFile.ods)
> > >
> > > Interestingly the return value (retVal) is "1", which would indicate
> > > success. However, there is nothing written to this file.
> > >
> > > The whole thing works while being in the same directory as the file to
> > > write to. Could it be that the folder path is not correctly passed to
> > > zip (I seem to recall that .ods files might in fact be zipped .xml files).
> > >
> > > Other ods-related functions (odsread, odsfinfo, can access the file in
> > > different
> > > directories).
> > >
> > > Please note that I am using octave 3.8.1 on Debian, with package
> > > octave-io 2.2.2-1 and without octave-java installed. I understand that
> > > the "OCT" way of writing files does not require java.
> > >
> > > I can still manually cd to the respective directory and call odswrite
> > > as workaround, just curious if I am doing something wrong.
> >
> > Currently I'm working on an issue with zipping up .ods files when using the
> > OCT interface. Big chance it's related to the one you hit (maybe even the
> > same).
> > Could you please file a bug report (with "[OF]" in the title)?
> >
> > Did you try any of the other (Java-based) interfaces? If so, do they work
> > correctly?
> >
> > Philip
>
> Thanks for your reply! How exciting that I might have discovered some
> bug, thus contributing to the development of octave.
> I am not using any java-based interface, in fact none of them are
> available on my system (according to 'pkg list'). I was actually
> wondering how to get them installed on Debian. The "octave-java"
> package would force me to downgrade octave (currently "testing") and
> some other packages, so I have avoided doing so. Can anyone confirm
> that this would be the correct way of installing at all?
> Philip, I'd happily file a bug report. Would you want me to do so for
> the Debian package or on savannah?

Savannah.

Philip