Re: Problem setting PATH environment

[Andy Buckle]

On 13 August 2012 09:41, Jonathan <address@hidden> wrote:
> OK, entered:
> system ("cat ~/.octaverc")
> and found that the previous savepath had indeed worked correctly.  .octaverc
> contains:
>
> ## Begin savepath auto-created section, do not edit
>   addpath ('/Users/jonathan/dropbox', '-begin');
> ## End savepath auto-created section
> ans = 0
>
> I am now wondering if I misunderstood how PATH works in Octave.  I assumed
> that subdirectories of the named path (ie under dropbox in my case) would
> also be accessible, but perhaps I was wrong.  Apologies if so.
> Jonathan

to get subdirectories, you can do

addpath(genpath( blah ));

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