From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Oct 12 09:29:24 1995
Subject: Re: Detecting Octave 
From: "John C. Campbell" <jcc at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu (Octave mailing list)
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 95 09:29:23 -0500

Eyal Doron <doron at goofy dot mpi-hd dot mpg dot de> wrote:

| 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)

I put the following in my .octaverc

if exist('whitespace_in_literal_matrix')
  foobar = 1
else
  foobar = 0
end

When I start Octave I see foobar = 1.  I put the same code in my
startup.m and in MATLAB I see foobar = 0.  Is this what you wanted? 

John Campbell


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John C. Campbell                    :  
jcc at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu               :  
University of Wisconsin-Madison     :  
Dept. of Chemical Engineering       :