Re: help - ...?

[Vic Norton]

Forget my question. No problem. I just downloaded the standard 
octave-2.1.71 distribution and copied its 
octave-2.1.71/doc/interpreter/octave.info* files into my 
/usr/local/info directory. The command "octave> help -i svd" now 
works fine.

- Vic

At 11:09 AM -0400 8/13/05, Vic Norton wrote:
> I have just installed Octave 2.1.71 on my Mac OSX 10.3.9 from 
> <http://hpc.sourceforge.net/>. I was previous running version 
> 2.1.69, which I obtained from the same source.
>
> Both versions of Octaves work fine but neither has any "help -i" information:
>    octave> help -i svd
>    info: /usr/local/info/octave.info: No such file or directory
>    help: sorry, `svd' is not indexed in the manual
>    octave>
> Is there a good source for the appropriate "octave.info" or do I 
> have to try to extract
> this from a complete Octave package?
>
> Regards,
>
> Vic



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