Octave 3.0.0 crashes when starting with file

[John W. Eaton]

On  1-May-2008, Allen.Windhorn at emerson.com wrote:

| 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:
| 
| [...]
| 
| 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>
| ------------
| 
| 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)

The octave-core file just contains variables in your workspace.  It is
not useful for debugging.

Please report bugs to the bug at octave.org list.

Please include enough information so that someone can actually debug
the problem, like a copy of the script you are trying to run, or a
pared-down version of it that triggers the bug.

Thanks,

jwe