so far so good | but..file I/O

[Evan Cooch]

Well, thanks to people's kind answers to my question about porting from 
MATLAB cell array to Octave's LIST, 95% of the m-files have been 
successfully ported to Octave (at least, the m-files that have no graphics...).

However, one minor thing - I'm currently running the Windoze binary of 
Octave (pause for people to gnash their teeth), and am have problems 
figuring out how to modify various search paths, and (as important) how to 
specify where files are saved. Since students will be using the software, 
I'd like them to be able to save files to a student directory. Call it 
student. So

save -asciii /windows/desktop/student

or some such (although this doesn't work - it gives me an error saying that 
writing to that directory isn't allowed. All saves get dumped into teh main 
Octave root directory).

I RTFM as far as I could (the HTML version of same), and didn't see any 
obvious pointers to modifying how aspects of file I/O are handled - only 
the basic commands.

Thanks!

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