help within inferior-octave

[Leo Butler]

Hi,

When I try to use the help command within an Emacs buffer running
Octave in the inferior-octave mode, I get the following error:

octave> help eval
error: fwrite: invalid stream number = -1
error: called from:
error:   /usr/local/share/octave/3.2.3/m/help/__makeinfo__.m at line 147, 
column 5
error:   /usr/local/share/octave/3.2.3/m/help/help.m at line 62, column 25

I wonder what is going on here?

Leo


ps: Yes, I realise that there are key-bindings to allow me to look-up help
and bypass Octave's help function.

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