commands in stand alone programs

[John W. Eaton]

On 11-Jul-2008, Jovan Ilic wrote:

| To: bug at octave.org
| Cc: ilic
| Subject: commands in stand alone programs
| 
| In stand alone programs calling commands like pkg, load, etc. 
| return values instead of executing the commands.  For example, 
| "load file.mat" would just return a cell with whatever was 
| read in from file.mat.  Is this the intended behavior or a bug?

What do you mean by "stand alone program"?  Can you provide a complete
example that demonstrates what you are talking about, and also
explain precisely what behavior you expect and what you currently see?

jwe