From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Mon Dec  2 11:49:03 1996
Subject: [50 character or so descriptive subject here (for reference)]
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: jay at elec dot gla dot ac dot uk (J.Sigbrandt)
Cc: octave-maintainers at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 11:47:54 -0600

On  2-Dec-1996, J. Sigbrandt <jay at elec dot gla dot ac dot uk> wrote:

: Bug report for Octave 1.93 configured for i486-unknown-linux
: 
: Octave hangs upon startup.  It then produces a Segmentation Fault.

: Removing the .octave-history file, seems to make the problem go
: away.

I have not encountered this problem.  Does it matter what is in the
history file, or can it be anything?  If the contents of the file are
important, can you send a copy of a file that causes the problem?  If
not, can you try to debug where it is hanging and/or crashing?

Thanks,

jwe