[scilab-Users] [ANN]: Scipad-8.65

[François Vogel]

Charles Warner said on 20/06/2011 01:40:
> Using Ubuntu 10.04 64 bit and Scilab 5.2, yields the following error:
>
> "atomsExtract: The extraction of the archive
> '~/Downloads/scipad-8.65-Scilab5.zip' has failed.
>   ! --error 10000
>
> at line 51 of function atomsError called by:
> at line 82 of function atomsExtract called by:
> at line 149 of function atomsInstall called by:
> scipver+"-Sciab5.zip").

---------------^   missing an l here (?!?)


> Playing around with the name of the folder, I get a different error
> that suggests atomsExtract (or atomsInstall) is prepending the file
> name/path with a "\", which is obviously going to drive my system crazy.
>
> What is wrong?  What is error 10000?

I can reproduce.
Apparently atoms does not understand the ~ shortcut. Expanding it 
manually, this works for me:

   scipver = "8.65";
 
atomsInstall("/home/USERNAME/Downloads"+"/scipad-"+scipver+"-Scilab5.zip");

F.