mysterious files

[Martin Buenner]

Dear octave users and developpers,

while running octave for some extensive calculations, which also invoke
shell scripts and read data from files, octave writes some mysterious
files to the directory /var/tmp. The operating system is HP-UX. The
files are called similar to oct-OHAa23643, where the PID of octave is
23643. In the file there is always some matrix in ascii format.

i.e. if I type 'more oct-KHAa23643', I will get 

# name: /var/tmp/oct-KHAa23643
# type: matrix
# rows: 4
# columns: 2
 1700 -18.7502445728488
 1700 -20
 1750 -20
 1750 -18.7502445728488

Does anybody know where this comes from and how it is able to surpress
this behaviour?

Best regards.

Martin
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