From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Wed Apr 15 00:00:08 1998
Subject: LOADPATH broken in 2.0.11?
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Erik de Castro Lopo <erikd at zip dot com dot au>
Cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 23:59:31 -0500 (CDT)

On 15-Apr-1998, Erik de Castro Lopo <erikd at zip dot com dot au> wrote:

| Bug report for Octave 2.0.11 configured for i586-pc-linux-gnulibc1
| 
| Description:
| -----------
| 
| I have the line:
| 
| 	LOADPATH = "~/Octave//:"
| 	
| defined in the .octaverc file in my home directory. When I start
| octave-2.0.11, I get a message stating that it reads this file,
| but octave does not automatically read scripts from the given 
| directory. 
| 
| The LOADPATH variable is correct, when you view the value when
| running octave.
| 
| I switched back and forth between 2.0.9 and 2.0.11 and 2.0.9 
| works correctly.

This feature should work correctly in the next release (2.0.12).  If
you'd like to try it out, there should be a new test release available
from ftp://ftp.che.wisc.edu/pub/octave/test-releases soon.

Thanks,

jwe