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From: Tony Richardson <ar63 AT evansville DOT edu>
Subject:  Re: No octave prompt (no error messages)
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 14:21:52 +0000 (UTC)
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Albert Vos <vos_albert <at> hotmail.com> writes:

> at home and at work I have the same problem with octave under cygwin. In 
> both cases I octave just quits without giving any output, no prompt, no 
> error messages. One computer runs on win2000 Sp4 on which I'm no 
> administrator and the other runs on winXp Sp2 on which I have all rights.

You might try starting octave using "octave -V" or "octave -x" (or both) to
determine if it is getting hung in one of the startup scripts.
Otherwise follow the problem reporting guidelines ...

Tony Richardson




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