[10337] in Athena Bugs
[dethomas@Athena.MIT.EDU: Matlab bug]
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Subject: Matlab bug
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Hi,
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Subject: decmips 7.4G: matlab
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What were you trying to do?
I accidentally forgot ";" after the assignment statement of an especially large matrix.
What's wrong:
Ctrl-C does not work to stop the printing of my whole matrix to the screen. This takes about 45 minutes. I had to go to my xterm window, ask "ps", and "kill" the matlab job, thereby losing all the variables in my workspasce. It is a little heavy for one poor semi-colon forgotten.
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This behavior is caused by backgrounding matlab on the command line rather than
keeping it in the foreground. What happens is that matlab forgets that ^C is
mapped to interupt. Normally, a ^C WILL stop the listing of a variable. A short term
fix is to,
add matlab
matlab
then, use a ^Z and bg if you want to background the process. I found a way to fix
this problem and it should be installed shortly. Thanks for bringing this to our
attention.
-Drea Thomas-
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