Octave 3.0.0 crashes when starting with file

[Allen.Windhorn at emerson.com]

I want to start Octave from a Windows shortcut thus:

"C:\Program Files\Octave\bin\octave-3.0.0.exe"
 -q --persist "h:/work/matlab/unbal.m"

When I do this the program starts and abruptly vanishes.  By doing it
from a shell, I can get:

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C:\Program Files\Octave\bin>octave-3.0.0 h:/work/matlab/unbal.m
GNU Octave, version 3.0.0
Copyright (C) 2007 John W. Eaton and others.
This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTIBILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  For details, type `warranty'.

Octave was configured for "i686-pc-msdosmsvc".

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 - Use `pkg list' to see a list of installed packages.
 - SciTE editor installed. Use `edit' to start the editor.
 - MSYS shell available (C:\Program Files\Octave\msys).
 - Graphics backend: jhandles.


           CALCULATE VOLTAGE UNBALANCE

Enter phase currents.  Note: all currents must be > 0 for case 3
Enter A phase current p.u. <0>: panic: Segmentation violation --
stopping myself...
attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
save to `octave-core' complete

C:\Program Files\Octave\bin>
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However, when I run the same file from within the program, everything
works fine.

Something to do with stdin?

Any suggestions?  Anyone want to look at octave-core?  (Seems to be
binary)

Regards,
Allen
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