Re: octave told "Value is required after -x" when I typed some commands.

[Gagiel]

Oh it works! Thank you so much.
I guess days ago I exported LESS="-x" should be the cause of this problem.

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 9:49 AM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 27-Oct-2011, Gagiel wrote:
>
> | I am using octave3.2 under Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, and I find myself stuck
> | in endless strange responses.
> |
> | When i type "news" without the quotes, it says "Value is required
> | after -x", so does it with commands such as "help find" and the like.
> |
> | I search through Google but could not find any related result. Also I
> | tried "apt-get --reinstall", though it was useless.
> |
> | Any idea and suggestion? Thanks in advance.
>
> At the Octave prompt, type
>
>  PAGER_FLAGS
>
> What does this return?
>
> Try setting it to the empty string:
>
>  PAGER_FLAGS ("")
>
> and see if that fixes the problem.
>
> jwe
>



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