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From: "Robbie Gates" <robbie AT m8s DOT org>
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Subject: Re: No octave prompt (no error messages)
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Albert Vos 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.

Check also that your PATH includes /usr/lib/lapack, as octave appears
to need the dlls found there.  My default path doesn't contain this,
and octave by itself fails as you describe:
  : 1007; octave
  : 1008; echo $?
  53
whereas
  : 1009; PATH="$PATH:/usr/lib/lapack" octave
  GNU Octave, version 2.1.73 (i686-pc-cygwin).
  [...]
  octave:1> quit
  : 1010; echo $?
  0

 - robbie

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