I have copied several
Matlab m-files to /usr/local/share/octave/site-m. However, when I call any of the functions Octave says that no such file exists. The path name in the error message is identical to the path name shown on the properties pull down menu for ...site-m. All transferred m-files can be read from
...site-m without difficulty, and an incomplete list of the files in ...site-m is given by the "dir /usr/local/share/octave/site-m" command (I assume the list is incomplete because of some sort of restriction on the number of files displayed - I also have text and other files in ... site-m). The load path /usr/local/share/octave/site-m is at the top of the list of directories given by entering "path". Is some sort of administrator privilege required to run Octave?
Ian Hodge