Re: New Octave for Windows sourceforge release

[Doug Stewart]

Andy Adler wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Bill Denney wrote:
>
>  
>
> > This doesn't fix the problem I was thinking of.  The problem that I was
> > discussing is if you do that it's fine, but if you type
> >
> > edit plot
> >
> > at the octave prompt with an editor that is outside of the cygwin
> > environment (i.e. notepad from your example), it will try to edit an empty
> > file because the path it will be passed is
> >
> > \usr\share\octave\2.1.73\plot\plot.m
> >
> > while notepad can't find a file there, it can find the file it's looking
> > for at
> >
> > c:\cygwin\usr\share\octave\2.1.73\plot\plot.m
> >
> > (I didn't specifically check the path to plot, so the path may be wrong,
> > but the statement is generally true).
> >
> > Essentially we would need to check if the editor is outside the cygwin
> > environment then we may need to mangle the path to show correctly for
> > being called from outside cygwin.
> >    
>
>  
Bill I have all this working in my version.


> The cygwin utility to do this is cygpath.exe
>
> so you can do
>    system('cygpath -msa /usr/share/octave/2.1.73/plot/plot.m')
> to get
>    c:/cygwin/usr/share/octave/2.1.73/plot/plot.m
>
> There are different switches for different slashes. If cygpath
> doesn't exist, then we can assume that we're not on a cygwin
> system.
> --
> Andy Adler <address@hidden> 1(613)562-5800x6218
>
>
>  

Too make a general version of edit.m that will work in windows and Linux
I  tried the following with success in windows:


 if (getenv("OS")(1:3)=="Win")
   persistent FUNCTION = struct ("EDITOR", [ EDITOR, " %s &" ],
                 "HOME",  getenv("HOME")  ,            ##[ 
getenv("HOME"), "/octave" ],  changed byDoug
                 "AUTHOR",getenv('USERNAME'),          ## 
getpwuid(getuid).gecos,    changed by Doug
                 "EMAIL", "" ,                                    ## 
[],  changed by Doug
                 "LICENSE",  "GPL")
 else

Linux code here
 end

This does find that the OS is Windows_NT even though I have XP.
I could do this for each location where they differ.

Is this the correct way to go
I will do the work I just want the results to be acceptable to all

What does getenv("OS") give as an answer on Linux machines??
I just have a windows system :-(

Doug Stewart




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