From bug-request at octave dot org Mon May 23 17:17:52 2005
Subject: nonexistent file error when file exists
From: Keith Goodman <kwgoodman at gmail dot com>
To: bug at octave dot org
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 15:16:44 -0700

When you try to load a file in Octave that exists but you don't have
permission to read it you get the error message:

error: load: nonexistent file: `temp'

A better error message would point out that the problem is with
permissions, something like

error: load: you do not have permission to read file: `temp'.

>> x =3D 1;
>> save temp x
>> exit
$ chmod -r temp
$ ls -l temp
--w-------  1 keith keith 95 2005-05-23 15:07 temp
$ octave
>> load temp
error: load: nonexistent file: `temp'
>>



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