Re: How do I just load (read) a file? (beginner's question)

[Miquel Cabanas]

hi David,

On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 01:44:26AM -0700, David Collett wrote:
> 
> I tried type the name of my text file (named "logisticmap"), but I  
> got this response:
> 
>      octave:1> logisticmap
>      error: `logisticmap' undefined near line 1 column 1
> 
> What am I doing wrong? I have this file on my Desktop.
> Do I have to put it somewhere else?

you have to tell the program where to search for your files. For
more information, check this email posted to the Octave mail list,

http://www.octave.org/mailing-lists/help-octave/2005/1999

> Does it have to have an extension at the end of the filename?

the so called M-files, containing only octave commands, are expected
to have the file extension ".m", but I don't know whether this is
optional or mandatory, in any case, it's a good policy to quickly
identify M-files as such.

Miquel

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