RE: .m file behaves differently when invoked from command line vs within interactive octave session

[Kelvin McCollough]

The following is a very simple .m file that works as expected from within 
octave but doesn't work when invoked from the command line.  The goal is to 
pass a file name for subsequent operations on.

function testcmdline(vargargin)
  % test command line input

    fileName=vargargin(1:end);
    printf ("%s\n", fileName);


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