Re: Printing

[Michael Goffioul]

On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 9:56 PM, David Arnold <address@hidden> wrote:
> All,
>
> After some of my students installed:
>
> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/octave/octave-3.1.50-setup.exe?
> modtime=1216584334&big_mirror=0
>
> They made a plot:
>
> x=linspace(-5,5);
> y=x.^2;
> plot(x,y)
>
> Then tried to print with the command:
>
> print

The way "print" without any filename is implemented is very UNIX-oriented
and simply calls "lpr". This of course cannot work "as-is" under Windows.
Print to a file, then use the Windows-way to print the file (whatever format)

Note also that 3.1.50 is a development snapshot that does not include a
bunch of toolboxes from octave-forge as well as ATLAS. I recommend that
you use regular releases, except if you have a good reason to use the
develpoment snapshot (for instance if you need the object-oriented features).

Michael;