From bug-octave-request at che dot utexas dot edu Mon Jun 6 10:43:45 1994 From: Edward Scott Meadows To: bug-octave Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 10:43:43 -0500 The following sequence doesn't work as expected. ------------------------------------------------------------------ june:35> octave Octave, version 1.0. Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994 John W. Eaton. This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. For details, type `warranty'. octave:1> help -i ------------------------------------------------------------------- At this point, I type ^z to escape back to bash. Upon typing "fg" I return to the info page, but immediately exit back to the bash shell. The octave job appears to have terminated, abnormally it appears, since nothing was written to .octave_hist. --esm