Re: Disabling OS system commands?

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> After many thoughts back and forth I think I understand what you mean. 
> You want to stop using ls.m (because it's inconsistent?) and learn to 
> use dir.m only.

I think I was confused with the tclsh behavior of firing an OS command when 
there is no defined internal command.  I should have run "which()"

> Run 'which ls' in Octave and delete that file. Or override that m-file 
> in your Octave path with something you'd like. Or you could simply set 
> ls_command to something invalid.

Yes, of course.  Thanks for graciously guiding me back to something I should 
have figured out on my own...

> 
> hth,
> David
>