Re: fprintf doesn't write "hello" to temporary file

[Aditya Bhagwat]

Dear all,
> fileName = sprintf('%s.sh', tmpnam());
> fid = fopen(fileName, "w");
> fprintf(fid, "hello\n");
> fclose(fid);
> cat(fileName)
>
> For some reason the file remains empty and no "hello" is present in 
> it. Any idea what is happening here?

I should add that I am working on octave 3.2.3, compiled on Ubuntu 9.04. 
I am calling octave from within emacs 23.1.

Regards and many thanks for your help,

Aditya