RE: Octave on Windows

[Allen.Windhorn]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Goffioul [mailto:address@hidden 
> 
> On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 11:37 PM, Bill Denney <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> system("touch .octavrc")
> > Unfortunately, touch is not a windows command.
> 
> Indeed. But octave for windows binary package includes a 
> subset of MSYS, including "touch". So the command above 
> should work fine.

On my Windows XP system it produces "ans = 0" which is not particularly
enlightening.  There is no .octavrc at %USERPROFILE% but I have one at
"C:\Program Files\Octave" (empty).  The one I use is called octaverc (no
period) and is located at C:\Program
Files\Octave\share\octave\site\m\startup

Regards,
Allen