Re: edit error

[Ben Abbott]

On Feb 6, 2012, at 11:06 PM, tappel81 wrote:

> Hello, I am fairly new to Octave. I have done some research through various 
> threads and other searches to no avail. I have 2 Octave types on my machine 
> 3.4.3 and an older 3.0.1. In the 3.0.1 I can execute the edit command to pop 
> up the editor. I cannot however do this in the 3.4.3, I get an error stating 
> "createprocess failed -- can't create child process" this comes from the call 
> to the edit.m file at line 212, column 7. I want to uninstall one of the 
> builds and only have one and I would like the newer, but, if I cannot work it 
> right, I guess I will keep the older. can anyone help Travis 
> View this message in context: edit error

What OS are you running ?

How did you install two versions of Octave ?

Ben