From owner-help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Tue Feb  4 21:32:42 1997
Subject: install script problem with OS/2 version
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: "Wonkoo Kim" <wkim+ at pitt dot edu>
Cc: "Octave Users" <help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 21:31:30 -0600

On  4-Feb-1997, Wonkoo Kim <wkim+ at pitt dot edu> wrote:

| A question:
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| G:\tmp>octave
| Octave 2.0.2 for OS/2 2.x and Warp.
| (Patchlevel 2.02-b01).
| Copyright (C) 1996 John W. Eaton.
| OS/2-Port by Klaus Gebhardt, 1996 - 1997.
| This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
| For details, type `warranty'.
| 
| error: No such file or directory
| octave:1>
| -----------------
| 
| Why do I have "error: No such ..." line in the above?

This message is printed because the history file is missing.  I'm not
sure about the OS/2 port, but for Octave running on Unix systems, the
default history file is $HOME/.octave_hist.  In the next release,
Octave won't print the message even if the file is missing.

jwe