Octave 3.2.0-mingw32 crashes when using 'clear all'

[Michiel Koot]

I did some more investigation and both problems haven been reported before.

The 'dir' problem is Vista specific and is solved here:

http://www.mail-archive.com/octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net/msg02318.html

The crash after runing 'clear all' is reported a.o. here:

http://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/bug-octave/2008-May/006094.html

Supposedly, it's caused by the SWIG based packages 'ann','database', and 'ftp', but i don't 
have these packages installed and still have this problem.

Michiel

On 9 Jul 2009 at 14:33, bug-octave at octave.org wrote:

> I just installed Octave 3.2.0-mingw32 on a Pentium D PC with Windows Vista. 
> 
> When I type 'dir' it says: 
> 
> error: memory exhausted or requested size too large for range of Octave's index type -- trying to 
> return to prompt 
> 
> Using 'ls' instead works fine though. 
> 
> When I type 'clear all' or 'clear -all' Octave crashes, saying: 
> 
> panic: Segmentation violation -- stopping myself... 
> attempting to save variables to `octave-core'... 
> save to `octave-core' complete 
> 
> Do more people encounter this? 
> 
> I've been using Octave 3.0.1 on the same computer for over a year and it still works fine. 
> 
> Sincerely, Michiel 
>