Re: How to use Octave on a Mac?

[Henry F. Mollet]

Please use 'reply all' so that the list gets a copy also.

Below is what happens on my computer when I 'open' my Octave application.
You could also double-click the application 'Octave' in your application
folder on your Mac.

Last login: Wed Jan 28 10:25:27 on console
Welcome to Darwin!

 [~] -bash-2.05b 501$ exec
'/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave'
GNU Octave, version 3.0.3
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octave-3.0.3:1> 
Now above is the octave prompt and you can type in a command. For example:
octave-3.0.3:1> rand (3)
ans =

   0.331569   0.315370   0.618072
   0.461212   0.073723   0.172041
   0.370579   0.089940   0.293293

octave-3.0.3:2> 
Now you have a new octave prompt which is ready for your your next command
or the name of a file without the .m extension.
Henry




on 1/28/09 12:12 AM, Lars Bergemann at address@hidden wrote:

> 
> I typed into the Mac Termina: open /Applications/Octave.app test.m... and it
> just opens Octave. What is wrong with this?Many thank in advance!Lars> Date:
> Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:29:30 -0800> Subject: Re: How to use Octave on a Mac?>
> From: address@hidden> To: address@hidden; address@hidden> >
> Octave is interpreting one line after the other in your filename.m file.> Just
> write 'filename' (without the .m) after the octave prompt and octave> will run
> all the commands in your file if there are no errors. To find> possible errors
> you can copy/paste each line from your m-file after the> octave prompt and
> find out if it works as expected.> Henry> > > on 1/27/09 12:36 PM, Lars
> Bergemann at address@hidden wrote:> >> >> Hi.I have just installed
> Octave on my Mac. But how do I use it? I write my .m>> files with TextEdit,
> but how do I run them? And can I just start with the>> commands in the .m
> file?Thanks!Lars>>
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