From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Oct 12 07:59:43 1995
Subject: Re: Detecting Octave
From: vdp at us0 dot mayo dot EDU (Vinayak Dutt)
To: doron at goofy dot mpi-hd dot mpg dot de
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 95 07:59:37 CDT



I do that with checking for a global variable OCTAVE_VERSION; if it
exists, I assume I am running octave, else its MATLAB.

Vinayak

# Hi,
#    I would like an .m file to detect if its running under Matlab or
# Octave. Anybody have a generic solution?
# 
# Before you start, things like
# 
# if exist(whitespace_in_literal_matrix)
# 
# don't work. I could search for .m files which exist in one and not the
# other, but that is inelegant and version dependent. Any other way? If not,
# maybe a builtin function should be included in the future?
# 
# Eyal Doron
# 
# 
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