Fwd: Re: self-contained Octave scripts

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> To: Paolo <address@hidden>
> From: Kai Habel <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: self-contained Octave scripts
> Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 16:56:31 +0200
> -----
> Paolo schrieb:
> > 
> > i've written my octave scripts and now i'd like to make them executable,
> > i've some problem. Reading the manual
> > i can't compile the second example, and i don't understand something:
> > in my files.m there 10 functions, one load the file.dat the other make
> > histo, one compute the atocorrelation and so on ... to make these
> > function executable i've to split every funcion in a different script
> > file ? and how can i pass it my arguments (argv ?) ? for example the
> > function that load the file is:
> 
> First, make sure that your scripts works within octave. So all your
> functions must reside in its own files. These files must be in octave's 
> LOADPATH.
> Make a wrapper script which calls your functions.
> The arguments a stored in argv variable.
> 
> Here an example script file (foo.m) :
> 
> -------------------------
> #!/usr/local/bin/octave -q
> 
> if (rows(argv) < 1)
>       usage("foo filename");
> else
>       fname = argv(1,:);
>       if (isstr(fname))
>               ret = your_octave_function(fname);
>               next_fun(ret);
>               hist();
>               .....
>       endif
> endif
> 
> -------------------------
> 
> make foo.m executable: chmod +x foo.m
> 
> now
> 
> ../foo.m /path/yourfile
> 
> should work
> 
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> Bye Kai
> 
> 
> 
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