running octave

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Fri Nov 21 21:25:33 PST 2008


On Nov 21, 2008, at 23:20, Robert Fong-tom wrote:

> 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.

Ok, thanks for letting us know. It sounded like something that should  
work, so I'm glad it is.



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