commands in stand alone programs

Fri Jul 11 12:44:58 CDT 2008

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?

Thanks,
Jovan Ilic

Bug report for Octave 3.0.1 configured for x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu

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