Re: Second attampt at new octave-forge web site

[David Bateman]

Bill Denney wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, David Bateman wrote:
> 
>> It should be in untar.m rather than tar.m. However I don't see
>> anything there that should be the cause of the issue. Perhaps you need
>> the absolute path to tar. Could you try
>>
>> pkg install <path_to_pkg>/image-1.0.0.tar.gz
>>
>> and see if it helps... I'm at a loss to explain why you are seeing the
>> problem like this..
> 
> Might there be a problem if there is a space in the home directory path?
> Perhaps tar is messing up on something like:
> 
> tar <options> /home/Joe Koski/image-1.0.0.tar.gz
> 
> Bill
> 

Maybe, though I just tried

untar("image-1.0.0.tar.gz","Test Dir")

and it seemed to work fine. Maybe its time for an strace...

D.