From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Tue Jan  8 16:10:34 2002
Subject: Re: a question about octave
From: Roberto Hernandez <robher at adinet dot com dot uy>
To: Claudio Scherer <scherer at if dot ufrgs dot br>
CC: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 19:08:54 -0300

Claudio Scherer wrote:

> Dear Sir
> 
> As a former user of MATLAB, I use, in long script files, to have the
> system telling me
> where it is, by writing values of some variables during the execution of
> 
> the programs.
> In MATLAB I simple insert the name of the variable in the program
> without putting
> the semicolon at the end of the line. In OCTAVE this does not work. How
> can I
> circumvent this problem? In other words, how can I make the computer
> send me
> messages during the calculation?


Octave holds the output until it is ready to return to the prompt, but 
there are several ways to change this behavior. It's all explained in 
the help. Type 'help -i' and then go to the "* Input and Output::" section.

 
> Thanks in advance
> Claudio Scherer





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