octave told "Value is required after -x" when I typed some commands.

[John W. Eaton]

On 27-Oct-2011, Gagiel wrote:

| I am using octave3.2 under Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, and I find myself stuck
| in endless strange responses.
| 
| When i type "news" without the quotes, it says "Value is required
| after -x", so does it with commands such as "help find" and the like.
| 
| I search through Google but could not find any related result. Also I
| tried "apt-get --reinstall", though it was useless.
| 
| Any idea and suggestion? Thanks in advance.

At the Octave prompt, type

  PAGER_FLAGS

What does this return?

Try setting it to the empty string:

  PAGER_FLAGS ("")

and see if that fixes the problem.

jwe