Newbie problem running *.m files on Octave 3.4.2 on Snow Leopard

[John Helly]

Hi.

I've put /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/MacOS in my path and aliased 
octave='Octave' and I can start 'octave' from the Terminal command-line but 
whether I give it a *.m filename or not it always opens up an interactive 
session.  I expect that if I give it a *.m filename it should run the file and 
return to the command-line.  Can anyone suggest why this is not working?

I've also tried building octave-3.4.2 but it fails with a flex problem in 
builtins.cc that seems to be an old problem and I can't figure that out.

I then tried building from the source gotten from 

hg clone http://www.octave.org/hg/octave

but that doesn't seem to have configure bundled with it.


Thanks.
Cheers.
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