Thank you very much. Now Scilab opens its window by doing as your suggestion.
On 2002.04.18, at 22:47, Martin Costabel wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> Hello. I have installed Scilab; but when I input the command "scilab" >> on Oroborus X, the Scilab's window opens for only a instant, disappears >> quickly, and leaves a message as follows: >> >> % write start: can't write file >> apparent state: unit 1 named /Users/myhome/scilab.hist > > The file ~/scilab.hist needs to be writable by the scilab (or scilex) > process, that means by you as the owner of this process. What does "ls > -l /Users/myhome/scilab.hist" say? > > What may have happened is that the first time you ran scilab, you did it > as "sudo scilab". The file scilab.hist then is owned by root and not > writable by yourself. "sudo rm" it and restart scilab. > > -- > Martin > _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users