Re: octave stole my Terminal

[Henry F. Mollet]

Thomas explained this to be before. I believe it has nothing to do with
octave (see below)
Henry
 [~] -bash-2.05b 502$ ls
Adobe_SVG_3.0 _nstaller_Log     Sites
CMakeTmp                        Sites_extra
cut

 [~] -bash-2.05b 503$ exec ls
Adobe_SVG_3.0 _nstaller_Log     Sites
CMakeTmp                        Sites_extra
cut
[Process completed]
% Now I have to open a new shell


on 9/12/07 12:17 PM, Thomas Treichl at address@hidden wrote:

> Right Moc, but I wouldn't say this is a problem, this is new and wanted and
> depends on how Octave.app is started. If you double-click the icon or call
> from 
> command line
> 
>    open /Applications/Octave.app
> 
> then we start a new process (Terminal.app) and therefore we need to terminate
> that process again after the call of 'quit' or 'exit' (Apple App behavior). So
> what to do with the 'terminated process Terminal.app' - the Terminal never
> gets 
> active anymore!? Set in your Preferences of Terminal.app that the window
> should 
> be closed if bash is exited, so that you can see the feature completely
> working.
> 
> The other solution is to start up octave from the command line by just typing
> eg.
> 
>    /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave
> 
> (or you already have created a link to this file placed eg. in /usr/bin and
> then 
> simply call octave - read Readme.html of *.dmg about how to do it) then you
> get 
> back to the bash after the call of "quit" (Unix shell command behavior)
> because 
> Octave runs on top of bash in the same Terminal.app.
> 
> Without promise I hope that it also works like this on your PPC platform?!
> 
>    Thomas
> 
> moc.elbban schrieb:
>> This is an OS X problem.  Everytime I start my terminal, it starts octave.
>> And when I enter 'quit', it quits the shell.  So then, the only way I can
>> run commands is by typing, for example, "system('ls')".  There is nothing in
>> my .bashrc or .profile that is sneaky.
>> 
>> Here is what happens when I start a new shell in Terminal and then check my
>> processes:
>> "
>> 
>> Last login: Wed Sep 12 13:49:59 on ttyp1
>> Welcome to Darwin!
>> exec '/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave'
>> XXX:~ XXX$ exec '/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave'
>> GNU Octave, version 2.9.13
>> Copyright (C) 2007 John W. Eaton and others.
>> This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
>> There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTIBILITY or
>> FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  For details, type `warranty'.
>> 
>> Octave was configured for "i386-apple-darwin8.9.1".
>> 
>> Additional information about Octave is available at http://www.octave.org.
>> 
>> Please contribute if you find this software useful.
>> For more information, visit http://www.octave.org/help-wanted.html
>> 
>> Report bugs to <address@hidden> (but first, please read
>> http://www.octave.org/bugs.html to learn how to write a helpful report).
>> 
>> For information about changes from previous versions, type `news'.
>> 
>> octave-2.9.13:1> system('ps aux | grep ctave')
>> XXX     956   0.0  0.1    27728    640  p1  S+    1:50PM   0:00.02 /bin/sh
>> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave
>> XXX     978   0.0  1.7    98376  17380  p1  S+    1:50PM   0:01.09
>> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave-2.9.13
>> XXX     979   0.0  0.1    27728    596  p1  S+    1:51PM   0:00.00 sh -c ps
>> aux | grep ctave
>> XXX     981   0.0  0.0    18060    240  p1  R+    1:51PM   0:00.00 grep
>> ctave
>> ans = 0
>> octave-2.9.13:2>
>> " 
>> 
>>   I see that line "exec
>> '/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave'" up top.  Its a
>> sneaky one, can't find out who's putting it there.  Any ideas?  I'm on a
>> MacBook running 10.4.10.
>> 
>> -seth
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