Vista Problems with finding files

[John W. Eaton]

On  9-Feb-2009, ChuckDrake at ferris.edu wrote:

| I have tried several editions of Octave and get the same problem.  For 
| example, I create a .m file with Edit and save the file to c:\Program 
| Files\Octave.  The file and location are verified using a file manager. 
| However Octave can't find the file.  Dir only shows sub-directories. 
| Attempting to execute the file give me a "can't find file" message. 

When you are doing this, what does typing

  pwd

at the Octave prompt print?  What about

If it is not c:\program files\octave, then is that directory listed in
the output of

  path

?

jwe