From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: poti@potis.org Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: no prompt for Octave on Emacs for Windows Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:49:46 -0400 Message-ID: <20070610204946.GA21395@mail.potis.org> References: <20070610042156.GA19913@mail.potis.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181508613 17257 80.91.229.12 (10 Jun 2007 20:50:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 20:50:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 10 22:50:08 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HxUMS-0007PB-28 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 22:50:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HxUMR-0006Sx-Ne for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:50:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HxUMC-0006QA-Np for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:49:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HxUMB-0006Pl-8J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:49:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HxUMB-0006Pi-6F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:49:51 -0400 Original-Received: from sitemail2.everyone.net ([216.200.145.36] helo=omta16.mta.everyone.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HxUMA-0003ii-PE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:49:50 -0400 Original-Received: from pop15.mta.everyone.net (bigiplb-dsnat [172.16.0.19]) by omta16.mta.everyone.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F258F400AF for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 13:49:49 -0700 (PDT) X-Eon-Dm: pop15 Original-Received: by pop15.mta.everyone.net (EON-AUTHRELAY2 - 48f102f2) id pop15.465dfe40.1fb382 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 13:49:49 -0700 X-Eon-Sig: AQLTeK1GbGPtoME5CgIAAAAB,b049840597e5ff71b7b366e1c9c618e4 Original-Received: by potis.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1000 poti@potis.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:49:47 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:44851 Archived-At: On 21:36 Sun 10 Jun , Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 00:21:56 -0400 > > From: poti@potis.org > > > > I have tried to run the most recent version of Octave for Windows > > with NTEmacs and EmacsW32. Octave runs fine in a cmd shell. In shell and > > eshell it launches, but no prompt appears. I can type commands and I > > get output, but no prompt. > > What kind of port is the Octave port you are using? Is it by any > chance a Cygwin port? There are known issues with running Cygwin > programs as subprocesses of a native Windows port of Emacs. It is not a Cygwin port. It is an MSVC port. See http://www.dbateman.org/?page=octave&lang=EN I will look closer at some of the Cygwin threads to see if it might be related. I have now also tried this with GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2007-06-02 on RELEASE (on which the graphics, by the way, have lost all their color depth) Thanks. -Poti