Math Forum / Math Software / Scilab / September 2008

It is not possible for me to copy something from help pages and paste
it to the main scilab-5.0.2 window. I'm using windows XP, and the new
scilab-5.0.2. Can somebody explain what I'm doing wrong ? (If I shadow
the text with left clicking my mouse on the help page nothing happens

with Scilab 4.1.2, one was able to change %scicos_menu to add a new menu in scicos. Now this return an error :
!--error 13
Redefining permanent variable.
How to do in Scilab 5 ?

I installed Scilab 5.0.1 for Windows and ran an old simulation that
generates some simple graphs in multiple graphic windows with text labels
and a couple with just text only. In all cases the fonts were rendered
poorly. Increasing the font size or font type used didn't make any

In scilab 5.0.1 on Ubuntu 8.04.1/i386, just type :
--> a=ls
--> a(1)
Anyway, it was probably not a good idea to type this :-)

Hello Scilabers
I have installed the newly distributed Scilab 5.0.1 on my laptop,
Linux x86 Fedora, Nvidia card, Driver Version: 173.14.12.
I use the binary distribution which is readily installed.

Is it possible to find in which directory is a file ?
What is the function ?
The getcwd gives the current directory and not a scpecific file
location.

Hy every body !
Is there any function to get the current directory ? I don't want to
set a new one just which one it is.
Thank you.

I have tried to install scilab 5.0.1 under Linux (Kubuntu 7.10 with
graphics card Intel 85x and i810 graphics driver). I read on the
release note that
"Errors often appear on Intel cards under Linux"

thank you for delivering scilab 5.0.1.
I compared the time needed to plot between scilab 4.1.2 and the new
one on Windows XP SP3.
I was very astonished about the VERY slow new version.

In the help file is written "linpro has been moved to a external
contribution. Please download quapro toolboxe.
http://www.scilab.org/contrib/index_contrib.php?page=download.php ",
but I don't found this toolbox while following the reference. Where

Dear NG,
Is there a way I can download the older version of Scicos? I need one
that works with win98, one that works with scilab 4.0  Thanks in
advance.

I have compiled and linked Scilab-5.0.1 on my Mandriva 2008.0 x86-64 OS
machine.
 The scilab command launches scilab but the java the libraries are
missing. I've loaded the obvious java material from the Mandriva

I've not had much luck in plotting 3d data points. They are generated
from a sensor, rather than a function, and are of the form x, y, z,
with each a column vector. When I look at the scilab documentation, it
seems that the 3d plotting functions all require x and y to be of

is there something like fill_vector(start,end, step)? ie [start, start
+step, start+2*step,....]?
Thanks,
Kostas

After installing scilab on a suse linux system, I found that the
generation of graphs crashes scilab with:
scilab-bin: indirect_vertex_array.c:1359:
__indirect_glTexCoordPointer: Assertio n `a != ((void *)0)' failed.