From owner-help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Tue Jan 23 11:29:52 1996
Subject: Re: how to use LOADPATH command
From: vdp at us0 dot mayo dot EDU (Vinayak Dutt)
To: windy at ksc9 dot th dot com
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 96 11:29:18 CST


Here's a script that i made to change LOADPATH.

----------------- octavepath.m -----------------------
function p = octavepath(str)
%
% octavepath:
%
% p = octavepath(str)
%
% Set or Get the OCTAVE's LOADPATH variable
%
% if no argument is given, then it returns LOADPATH, else
% it sets LOADPATH to str
%
        global LOADPATH
        if ( nargin != 1)
                p = LOADPATH;   
        else
                LOADPATH=str;
        endif;
end
----------------- end of octavepath.m ---------------------

I then use this script to add paths to the default octave path. For example if
I want to add /home/vdp/octave to it I would use following commands:

p = octavepath();                               # obtain the current LOADPATH
octavepath([p ':/home/vdp/octave//']);  # update LOADPATH


--Vinayak Dutt