Re: What does the exit command do?

[Keith Goodman]

Thank you. That works.

I was using the -H option in the hope of speeding up the exit.

It is certainly worth it to me if someone else fixes it.


On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 16:08:19 -0400, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 22-Sep-2004, Keith Goodman <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> | I'm calling Octave with the command 'octave -qH myfunction.m' so it
> | should't need to write to .octave-hist on exit.
> |
> | I get the error with or without the -H option.
> 
> The -H option is equivalent to saying
> 
>   saving_history = false;
> 
> in Octave.  This only tells Octave to stop adding commands to the
> history list.  The list is still read at startup and saved when Octave
> exits (even if the history list is empty).
> 
> It should be possible to decide whether the history list has been
> modified and then not save it.  It should also be possible to avoid
> trying to write the file if it can't be opened for writing.
> 
> Until someone decides that this problem is is worth the effort to fix,
> you can run Octave using a command like
> 
>   OCTAVE_HISTFILE=/dev/null octave -qH myfunction.m
> 
> (Bourne shell syntax).
> 
> jwe
>



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