Re: GUI thoughts

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Sebastien Loisel wrote:

>> Octave session (for one thing, embedding Octave this way turns off the 
>> internal flag that tells it that it is running in an interactive 
>> session).  You could probably work around that too, but I think there 
>> must be a better way.
>
> This I'm curious about because it's the first time I hear of this flag. 
> What does it do?

It could explain something that I was going to report as a bug: in 
workshop, nargout always seems to be set to 1 when it should be 0.  I 
found this specifically in pwd, but I checked another command (I don't 
recall which one) and it had a similar effect.

Bill

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