Re: Problems installing sockets on Windows 7

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

> From: inertialwave 

> To: help-octave
> Cc: 
> Date: 2014/7/16, Wed 13:45
> Subject: Re: Problems installing sockets on Windows 7
> 
> HTH
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Yes, I am using Octave 3.6.4.
> Here is my experience:
>> pkg list
> indicates sockets 1.0.8 is installed
>> pkg load sockets
> warning: autoload: 'sockets.oct' is not an absolute file name
> ...20 repititions
> warning: autoload: 'sockets.oct' is not an absolute file name
>> pkg -verbose describe sockets
>    Package name:
>              sockets
>     .....
>     Status: 
>             Loaded
> ..
>> help socket
> error: help: 'socket' not found
> 
> What am I missing?
> 


Sorry I do not find the reason why you failed.

For me,

octave-3.6.4.exe:2> pkg load sockets
octave-3.6.4.exe:3> pkg list

I confirmed that the sockets package is installed.

octave-3.6.4.exe:4> help socket
'socket' is a function from the file C:\Software\Octave-3.6.4\lib\octave\package
s\sockets-1.0.8\i686-pc-mingw32-api-v48+\sockets.oct

s=socket(domain,type,protocol)
Creates a socket s. Domain is an integer, where the value AF_INET
can be used to create an IPv4 socket.
type is an integer describing the socket. When using IP, specifying SOCK_STREAM
gives a TCP socket.
protocol is currently not used and should be 0 if specified.

If no input arguments are given, default values AF_INET and
SOCK_STREAM are used.
See the local socket() reference for more details.

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Tatsuro