On 16-Jul-2008, Przemek Klosowski wrote: | Now, r.m and t.m both work, but s.m doesn't. It seems that -q -f acts differently | than -qf: Some (most?) systems don't split up the arguments when passing them to the shebang command, so I'd guess that on your system, Octave is actually seeing the single argument "-q -f" instead of two separate arguments. jwe