Re: Printing Status from .m files

[Mario Storti]

> I'm in the process of converting .m files from Matlab to
> octave. Most of the time I find I prefer the way octave does it,
> when there's a difference, but sometimes I'd like the Matlab 
> behaviour.
> 
> When I have a long function, I often print status messages like
>  Foobar: iteration 2 of 666 completed.
> 
> In matlab, these show on the screen immediately, but octave waits
> until the control is returned to the user, making the status 
> messages useless. 
> 
> My question is:
> 
> Is there any way to force octave to print the text immediately?
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> _____________________________________________________________________

Try the following. You may put it in the ".octaverc" file.

octave:> page_screen_output=0;

Mario

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