silent_functions ignored?

[Nathan]

I'm new to octave, using 2.1.33 (the rpm which ships with RH7.1). I
finally found the silent_functions variable, only it doesn't appear to
make any difference. I tried setting it in my script, in the function
module, in my ~/.octaverc. I can verrify that it has been set (to 1, if
I try to set it to true I get 'preference of "true" is obsolete -- use
numeric value of 1 instead'.

octave tells me that the variable is set to the desired value, but it
won't suppress the noisy evaluations of every  line in my script.

Am I doing something wrong - surely I wouldn't be the first person to
discover this if it were a bug. (I didn't see it in the archives.)

Nate



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