running octave

Robert Fong-tom rfongtom at gmail.com
Fri Nov 21 21:20:46 PST 2008


On Nov 22, 2008, at 12:02 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Nov 21, 2008, at 22:56, Robert Fong-tom wrote:
>
>> I finally successfully ported Octave. Thanks to everyone for your  
>> help. There is still one issue. I am using OS X 10.4 on a Intel  
>> Mac, and I have tow accounts: 1) user account to do all work and  
>> 2) a admin account that I use for maintenance etc.
>>
>> Of course, I had to use the admin account to port Octave and it  
>> seems to run OK on the admin account. However I would like to make  
>> it available  in the user account since this is where I do all my  
>> work and all my work files are stored under this account. Is it  
>> possible to do this?
>
> What problems do you encounter trying to use octave from the user  
> account?
>
I am sorry, I got confused for a while. Octave runs in all accounts  
in Terminal. Before I was trying to run it in Xterm. The business  
about the different accounts my mistake. My apologies.


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