Re: saving Octave state?

[Mike Miller]

On Thu, 2 Dec 2010, Judd Storrs wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Mike Miller <address@hidden> wrote:
> > function save_odata ()
> >    save("-binary", ".OData")
> > endfunction
>
> The problem (I think) is that the save() runs in the function scope
> instead of the base. I think this change works:
>
> function save_odata ()
>   evalin("base","save('-binary', '.OData')") ;
> endfunction


Yes!  Thanks.  That worked.  For now I've added these functions to my 
~/.octaverc:

function save_odata ()
   evalin("base","save('-binary', '.OData')") ;
endfunction
atexit ("save_odata");

function quit2 ()
   atexit ("save_odata", false);
   quit
endfunction


So save_odata will save all data in binary format in .OData, and this will 
be executed automatically on exit, but if I use quit2 instead of quit to 
exit, the data are not saved.

I'll do some more work on this in the next week or two and then I'll post 
my final conclusions both here and on the R-Help list.

Mike