where does octave set its path

[Carlo de Falco]

On 6 May 2009, at 18:20, miggy wrote:

>
> I can set it myself in my $HOME/.octaverc but I don't see where  
> octave has it
> set.  Specifically, if I install a forge package it updates the path  
> but I
> don't see what file it's doing this too.  I don't see anything  
> relevent in
> /usr/share/octave/m/startup/.
>
> I'm using Linux and octave 3.0.5
>
> Thanks,
> Miggy

These sections of the Octave manual might help you understand how the  
path for packages is managed:

http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Packages.html#Packages
http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Administrating-Packages.html#Administrating-Packages

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