[8386] in Athena Bugs
RE: decmips 7.3M: matlab
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (vanharen@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Fri Oct 11 17:08:23 1991
From: vanharen@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 91 17:09:13 -0400
To: llublin@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [8271] in bugs
> What were you trying to do?
> Trying to use "gpp" at the athena prompt after I used "meta" in
> matlab.
>
> What's wrong:
> I got the error: gpp not found (or something like that)
>
> What should have happened:
> Gpp should have ran and converted the meta output to postscript
> format.
>
> Please describe any relevant documentation references:
>
>
> I know the problem can be fixed by simply typing:
>
> athena% add matlab
>
> However, I statred matlab up from the Dash menues and thought
> that when I did that matlab would be added for me. It seems
> that the problem is with DASH. When I use dash to start up
> matlab, I should not have to subsequently add matlab to use
> the gpp command.
Hello.
I'm not a matlab expert, so please let me know if I've
misunderstood the problem.
I tried running matlab from dash on both the VAX and DECstation
architectures and it ran without problem. I tried using the gpp
function, by typing "!gpp", and it seemed to work fine, although, as I
mentioned, I don't know much about matlab... but it didn't say "gpp not
found", anyway.
I think the problem that you are running into is with "add".
The "add" command is only effective in the window in which it is typed,
or in the case of dash, in the window that is popped up on the screen by
dash. So as long as you type "!gpp" in the matlab window provided by
dash, you'll be fine. If you try and use gpp in another window, you'll
have to do "add matlab" in that window first, so that that window knows
where to find gpp as well.
I hope this helps. If I've misunderstood your problem, please
let me know.
Thanks,
-Chris VanHaren
MIT Information Systems
