Cygwin Command Line Strangeness

[Damian Harty]

O Learned Denizens,

1) My machine:

Windows 7 64 Bit, Octave3.6.4_gcc4.6.2_20130408.

Using Cygwin NT-6.1-WOW64, I can do the following:

    echo 'printf ("    Octave: Hello, World!\n")'  > test_me.m
    /cygdrive/c/Octave/Octave3.6.4_gcc4.6.2/bin/octave.exe -q test_me.m 2> 
test_me.log

Hopefully you can see it makes a little file called "test_me" and dutifully 
runs it to produce a "hello world" message.

No problem.


2) Not my machine:

Windows 7 64 Bit, Octave3.6.4_gcc4.6.2, Cygwin_NT-6.1.

Same deal, except that when I try to run octave as above, it declares the 
test_me.m doesn't exist:

C:\Users\gaarama\test_me.m could not be found

That's entirely accurate. The file isn't there. When I call Octave from the 
command line, I expect any file not given an absolute path to be searched for 
in the local directory - which it plainly is on my machine. Any suggestions as 
to why it might work as advertised on my machine but not his?

Could there be some flag I set when I first installed Octave on my machine 
(less than a year ago) that I've forgotten? Or something?

I'm dreading the idea that it's a Cygwin setup issue; I had a very bad 
experience on their mailing list, unlike you lovely chaps...

Damian

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