From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Tue Jan  8 17:42:57 2002
Subject: Re: a question about octave
From: Shengchao Li <lish at ee dot eng dot ohio-state dot edu>
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 18:42:43 -0500 (EST)

I met this problem too. What I wanted was to have a indication of the
progress of computation. Now I use "save" command. Say, in the outer most
loop of computation, I say,

save tempfile theloopindex;

so I can take a look of the the file to know the progress. 

shengchao

On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Roberto Hernandez wrote:

> 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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