I give up: Where/what is the scilab path for functions?

[Walking Through]

Hello -

OK.. I have some .SCI code to install so that scilab 5.1.1 can find it.
This on a WinXP system. Where do I put homebrew .SCI files? Where
is %path or %PATH ?

I type "path" into the help browser and while there are a number of
returns indicating matches, none of them "look" like a variable named
path to directories containing functions.

Cheers.

Mark

[Francois Vogel]

Walking Through said on 15/11/2009 00:34:

> OK.. I have some .SCI code to install so that scilab 5.1.1 can find it.
> This on a WinXP system. Where do I put homebrew .SCI files? Where
> is %path or %PATH ?

Scilab is not Matlab. It works differently. Put your files where you
want and then exec() them so that Scilab knows about them.

See page 2 of this document:
http://www.infoclearinghouse.com/files/scilab19.pdf

Francois

[Tim Wescott]

I make a 'loadXXX.sce' file that loads the pertinent .sci files for the
project in that directory. Lately I've been putting all the unit test
stuff in there, too, so I can run the tests automatically (it keeps me
honest).

If there's something that you'll always use I _think_ there's a way to
get Scilab to run stuff on startup, but I'd have to dig for it to figure
it out (I haven't needed it in the several years of active use that I've
put Scilab to).

--
www.wescottdesign.com

[Francois Vogel]

Tim Wescott said on 15/11/2009 22:28:

> If there's something that you'll always use I _think_ there's a way to
> get Scilab to run stuff on startup

Yes there is. See help startup

Francois