RE: New user, simple question

[Allen.Windhorn]

Jason,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden On Behalf Of Muthiah Annamalai
> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 8:15 PM
> To: Jason Whiteley/NATC/HODGES
> 
> On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 16:29 -0800, Jason Whiteley/NATC/HODGES wrote:
> > 
> > I am a new user of Octave and I used Matlab in college. My simple 
> > question is how do I open an mfile or octave equivalent?...
> 
> You use any  text editor (Notepad, Wordpad on Windows) , 
> Emacs, VI, etc on *NIX. Open your m-files, edit and save it.
> Run Octave from shell, and type the name of your script to run.
                       ^starting it in the same directory as the script,

Otherwise the file has to be in a directory on Octave's load path,
similar to Matlab.  I'm still trying to figure out how to change path
on startup.

Regards,
Allen