From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Fri Nov 21 15:31:20 1997
Subject: Tolerance
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: 60eem023 <60eem023 at keyaki dot cc dot u-tokai dot ac dot jp>
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 15:31:56 -0600

On 21-Nov-1997, 60eem023 <60eem023 at keyaki dot cc dot u-tokai dot ac dot jp> wrote:

| So that we tried to input the command such as 
| "lsode_options(absolute tolerance, 1.0e-15)".

You need to quote the option string:

  lsode_options ("absolute tolerance", 1e-15);

BTW, you sent your message to help-octave at che dot utexas dot edu dot   That hasn't
been the correct address for several years now.  Are you using a very
old version of Octave?

jwe