From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Fri Mar  5 02:44:45 2004
Subject: Re: Amature Level Help
From: Christoph Dalitz <christoph dot dalitz at hs-niederrhein dot de>
To: Saba Karim Shah <dadiou1 at yahoo dot com>
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 09:31:26 +0100

On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 20:51:19 -0800 (PST)
Saba Karim Shah <dadiou1 at yahoo dot com> wrote:
> 
> I am a beginner with zero knowledge of Octave. Can
> someone tell me what is the command to run a .m file
> in Octave. 
> 
> I have downloaded and installed Octave 2.1.50 for
> Windows. 
> 
> What I am able to figure out is >>octave filename.m
> 
The section "Funtions and Script Files" in the manual mentions two
possibilities:

  a) Call the script file *without* the .m extension
     This might cause problem when the first comamnd in the file is "function"

  b) source('filename.m')

Christoph



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