Re: octave scripts don't go to background

[viveks]

On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Gerd B?rger asked: What's wrong?

I am not sure. Perhaps, it's the way Unix is supposed to work with jobs
submitted to background on the command line itself. All it means is that
the output to an interactive terminal is suspended.

We have site license for matlab here, and interestingly, even during
interactive sessions, time-taking commands like "fsolve" automatically go
to background with "suspended (tty output)"  message and come back once
the processing is done!

It is more proper to submit non-interactive octave scripts as batch jobs
(using at, batch or even cron utilities.)

"at" emails the standard output, if any.

Vivek...

Gerd B?rger wrote:

> If I send octave to the background from an interactive shell, it
> works. But using the script, e.g.,
> ------------ def.m ----------
> #! /usr/bin/octave
> quit
> ------------ def.m ----------
> 
> prompt> def.m &
> 
> doesn't work. octave says
> What's wrong?



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