Re: Windows: different behaviour of octave.bat and octave-cli/gui.exe regarding modifying path

[Colin Macdonald]

On 09/08/16 11:31, Abhinav Tripathi wrote:
> rom a user's point of view, it seems perfectly alright. I'll use
> octave.bat for opening octave now.

Some time ago (6 months) I observed the following problem with the .bat 
file.  No sure how reproducible it is; maybe Abhinav or others can check 
and report back.

1.  I ran octave.bat (by using the file manager to find it and double 
clicking on it).

2.  After the GUI started, I right-clicked on its icon on the "task/icon 
bar" (not sure what's its called, the icons to the right of the Start 
Menu"), and selected "pin here" (or something like that).

3.  Quit Octave.

4.  Click on the persistent task/icon bar icon.

5.  It directly ran some .exe file (octave-gui.exe?) and not the bat 
file, therefore the PATH seemed incorrect (and I could not install 
packages).

This was on either Win 8 or Win 10.

best,
Colin