octave

[John W. Eaton]

On 30-Oct-1998, Kanellopoulos, Joseph <address@hidden> wrote:

| I am looking into octave, and have 3 quick questions.
| 
| 1. How can I do the equivalent of .m fiels so I do not have to redo the
| whole thing every time I want to run it?

I'm not sure I understand the question.  Octave supports .m-files in a
way that is mostly compatible with Matlab.

| 2. help followed by what will show all available commands?

Just `help' should do it.

| 3. Is there a url from which I can get the online help for commands?

The help command in the current release of Octave says

  octave:1> help
  Help is available for the topics listed below.

  Additional help for builtin functions, operators, and variables
  is available in the on-line version of the manual.  Use the command
  `help -i <topic>' to search the manual index.

  Help and information about Octave is also available on the WWW
  at http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave/octave.html and via the
  address@hidden mailing list.


jwe