here?

[Vic Norton]

Can anyone tell me how to change the working directory to where you are?

For example it would be nice to have a "here" function that would return the 
path of the directory in which a script resides. Then
   thisdir = here();
   cd thisdir;
would do just what I want.

I do this kind of thing all the time in Perl with the two lines
   use FindBin qw($Bin);
   chdir $Bin;
I'd like to be able to do it in Octave.

Thanks for any suggestions you might have.  - Vic