Re: Octave from CDROM

[Michael Goffioul]

On 9/13/07, Lukas Richterek <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> thanks very much to all for your answers. I must admit, that using virtual
> linux machine or booting linux is not very suitable for me. Though I
> personally spend most time with Ubuntu, my idea was just to let about 15
> people strongly bound to Windows play with Octave for a while at the end of
> my seminar on classroom computers (without installing to harddisk).
>
> I tried to copy both octave 2.9.13 and 2.1.73 from Program Files
> directories to CD and prepare two .bat files
> octave.bat (for 2.9.13):
>
> cd Octave\tools\console\
> console.exe
>
> and soctave.bat (for 2.1.73)
>
> cd Octaves
> "..\Octaves\bin\run.exe" rxvt.exe --keysym.0xFF50 '^a' --keysym.0xFF57 '^e'
> --keysym.0xFFFF '^f^h' -tn linux -title 'GNU Octave 2.1.73' -geometry 80x25
> -bg White -fg Black -cr Blue -fn 'FixedSys' -sr -b 5 -e /bin/sh octave.sh
>
> Then I was able to run them (or at least it seemed, that
> Octave started from the CD) on the computer, where I burn the CD (with both
> Octave's on the HD), but not on another computer with the same version of
> Windows XP. I tried to insert the commands via the command-line, but the
> result was the same. Are some libraries installed into somewhere into
> system directories of should some system variables be (re)defined?
> In case of 2.9.13 console failed to open with warning, tat octave tab could
> be already running (but in fact it was not according to the Task Manager),
> in case of 2.1.73 rxvt just flashed and died.

I didn't think about the case of console (I don't use it). Indeed, the
configuration
file used by console.exe is not relocatable. What you can try instead is

cd Octave\bin
octave.exe

Michael.