RE: Command history is no longer functioning....

[Miquel Cabanas]

which is the value of history_size within Octave?

octave:1> history_size
history_size = 1024

if it is not 1024, check whether it's been assigned a new value in your
local ~/.octaverc or in the wide-system /etc/octave/octave*.conf

check also the history_file variable,

octave:2> history_file
history_file = /home/miquel/.octave_hist

Miquel

On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 14:57 +0100, Bernard Siow wrote:
> Thanks for the reply, I do have rw permission on the file and command
> history is still not working! 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Miquel Cabanas [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: 05 April 2006 14:55
> To: Bernard Siow
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Command history is no longer functioning....
> 
> one possibility is that you have changed the file permissions of
> ".octave_hist" at your home directory,
> 
> $ ls -l .octave_hist
> -rw-------  1 miquel miquel 6470 2006-04-05 09:25 .octave_hist
> 
> you must have write permission to append new commands to this file.




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