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[Daniel Collins]

Hi Folks,

 

            O.K. I’m still learning to use Octave 3.6.4 with Windows 7.  Recently, after entering the Octave 3.6.4 interpretor, I typed:

 

Function call

After typing some of the elements, I typed:

 

Endfunction

And Octave returned me to the interpretor prompt.  I then typed:

 

Save c:\users\daniel\documents\finance\call

And Octave apparently accepted the command with no complaints.  I then exited Octave, and then re-entered to the interpretor.  I typed the following:

 

Load c:\users\daniel\documents\finance\call

 

This created an Octave error; Octave said that it couldn’t find the file.  I then exited Octave and went into Notepad++.  There, I opened call under “all files” and it came up in Notepad++ as nothing more than the following:

 

# Created by Octave 3.6.4, Sun Aug 30 09:08:11 2015 Eastern Daylight Time <address@hidden>

 

I simply don’t understand where or how I went wrong.  What did I miss?  By the way, I assume that Octave scripts and functions are saved as text files, is that not correct?  For my own edification, in what format are scripts and functions saved?  Thanks for any help that is offered.

-djc