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choice of external program
From: |
Avraham Rosenberg |
Subject: |
choice of external program |
Date: |
Thu, 01 Nov 2001 13:38:07 +0200 |
Hi,
I happened to install octave on a system that lacked xloadimage. Later on, when
I had to display an image, instead of balking, octave used xv which was present
in the system. It was, of course slower, but very handy, in that particular
case, as I needed to know the coordinates of various features on the images.
Question: where resides the information about the external program to be used ?
Can one choose it everytime one uses octave or one hase to have customized
copies of the executable one to use with xloadimage and the other with xv ?
Similar question about gnuplot: pgplot can be sometimes handier.
I am using linux: Slackware 7.0 at home and RedHat 6.1 at work. For the moment
both systems display images with xv. The RedHat system worked initially with
xloadimage, but as I needed the features of xv, I renamed xloadimage so that
./configure won't find it, installed xv and then reinstalled octave. Quite a
job. I would certainly prefer an easier way, if possible. Thankfully yours,
Avraham
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- choice of external program,
Avraham Rosenberg <=