Re: distributing Octave in August

[John W. Eaton]

On 15-Jun-2007, address@hidden wrote:

| > 5) Added the following line to my .octaverc:
| > 
| > PS1(">> ");
| >
| 
| If I can set this through an environment variable, it will solve my
| problem. Working through a startup file will be a little more
| complicated, unless Octave, like Emacs, has multiple levels of startup
| files that have precedence over each other until you get to the last
| level, in the user's home directory. Maybe I could cat something to 
| the end of a file, but One of the rules for the DVD is that it is not 
| to touch anything on the computer behind the scenes except for ordinary 
| temp files in places where such files are expected to live. 

It seems to me there must be some other solution since all this seems
to be doing is setting the prompt to something that will be recognized
by Emacs as a prompt.  And that is already supposed to be true (the
default is "octave:NN> " and I think octave-inf.el sends commands to
Octave to set it to "octave> ".  If that's not working, will someone
please try to debug why it is failing?

jwe