From help-request at octave dot org Sat Mar 11 07:18:11 2006 Subject: Re: new to octave - need help with running user-defined function files From: "Andy Pugh" To: "Theresa Bullard" Cc: "Octave Help" Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 13:16:08 +0000 On 3/11/06, Theresa Bullard wrote: > I've tried the ls -a command and the only hidden bash file I see is > .bash_history, no .bash_profile or .bashrc. Can I just create them? > Would they be found somewhere other than my home directory? I am probbaly going to muddy the waters a bit here, and I suspect that you all know more about this than me. Between OSX 10.0 and 10.4 Apple have changed the default shell at least once. If I bring up a terminal window it says tcsh at the top of it. Looking round on the internet a while ago (while trying to get octave into my path, as .tar version installled to usr/local/bin and that wasn't on my path, and before giving up and letting Fink do all the work) I found reference to a set of files in /Users/Library/init/tcsh/ including "path", "completions.mine", "aliases.mine" etc. I don't know if these are still relevant. Or even anything to do with this question. FWIW I have no .bashrc anywhere that I can find and Octave works. Fink put it somewhere and added it to the path somehow. (I am sounding like a real Mac user here, aren't I? ) -- atp ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------