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
>


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