Newbie question saving "worksheet"

[John B. Thoo]

Hi.  First, many thanks to Bill L. and jwe for their help with solving 
lin sys and plotting yesterday; I feel I learnt a lot.  (I have another 
plotting question, but I'll ask that later.)  This morning, I'd like to 
ask about saving my work.

For example, in Maple one can save a "worksheet" that can be opened 
later and executed.  Is this possible in Octave?  The manual speaks to 
saving and loading on pp. 113ff and I tried "save -ascii 
~/Desktop/test.oct", but the saved file doesn't appear to be what I 
want.  (BTW, what filename extension should I use when saving an Octave 
file?  As you can see, I used ".oct", but is there a more appropriate 
one?)

My current workaround is to copy my commands from Octave into a text 
editor to save them and to copy from the text editor into Octave to 
reuse them, but is there a better way?

TIA.

---John.



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