From bug-octave-request  Sun Dec 20 11:04:04 1992
From: jbraw (James B. Rawlings)
To: bug-octave
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 11:04:03 -0600


John, I can get you the error giving me a core dump if I can just save
history.  I tried

save $HOME/.octave_hist history

and it failed complaining about the file.  I did a chmod ugo+rwx
~/.octave_hist and tried again with the same complaint.  I did

save /home/u0/jbraw/.octave_hist history

and it said it can't save functions.  I don't know what it is really
complaining about.  Also $HOME doesn't appear to be interpreted
correctly as a file name prefix, i.e. cd /home/u0/jbraw works but cd
$HOME does not.  getenv('HOME') does give /home/u0/jbraw.

jbr