Re: octave scripts don't go to background

[Douglas Sturim]

hmm.....  I guess you could write a perl/or shell wrapper to through the
arguments into a text file that your octave script would read in.  Not
elegant but it would work...

"Gerd Bürger" wrote:
> 
> Doug,
> 
> You wrote:
>    >Try
>    >
>    >octave < def.m >& octave_out &
> 
> but in case you want command line arguments you have to do
> 
> octave def.m arg1 arg2 ... >& octave_out &
> 
> and that doesn't go to background either, at least not for me (AIX
> 4.2, zsh).
> 
>     Gerd

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