~/.octaverc and OCTAVE_HISTSIZE

[Francesco Potorti`]

>I want to set OCTAVE_HISTSIZE to some value.  I tried this in the 
>~/.octaverc file but I think it was not doing what I want:
>
>OCTAVE_HISTSIZE=20000
>
>This worked from the bash command line:
>
>export OCTAVE_HISTSIZE=20000

Have you looked in the manual?  For current Octave versions, this is the
command you should give either at Octave's command line or in ~/.octaverc:

history_size(20000);

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