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1 .\" Man page for octave-bug
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2 .\"
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3 .\" Copyright (C) 2000, 2004, 2005 John W. Eaton
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4 .\"
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5 .\" This file is part of Octave.
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6 .\"
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7 .\" Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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9 .\" Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
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10 .\" your option) any later version.
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12 .\" Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
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13 .\" ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
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14 .\" FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
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18 .\" along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see
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19 .\" <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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20 .\"
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21 .\" This page was contributed by Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
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22 .\"
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23 .TH octave-bug 1 "6 March 2000" GNU
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24 .LO 1
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25 .SH NAME
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26 octave-bug \- report a bug in GNU Octave
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27 .SH SYNOPSIS
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28 .B octave-bug
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29 .RB [\| \-s
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30 .IR subject \|]
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31 .SH DESCRIPTION
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32 .B octave-bug
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33 is a shell script to help the user compose and mail bug reports
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34 concerning Octave in a standard format.
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35 .B octave-bug
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36 is typically invoked by the Octave command
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37 .B bug_report
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38 which is intended to be called interactively from within Octave. This
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39 provides the best way to submit a bug report for Octave. It creates a
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40 template bug report file and starts an editor on that file. The bug report
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41 will be sent to the bug-octave mailing list once the editing has been
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42 completed (this assumes of course that your system can use email). However,
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43 the user could also call \fBoctave-bug\fR outside of Octave.
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44 .PP
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45 Please read the `Bugs' chapter in the Octave manual to find out how to submit
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46 a bug report that will enable the Octave maintainers to fix the problem. If
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47 you are unable to use the bug_report command, send your message to the
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48 bug-octave mailing list, bug@octave.org.
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49 .SH OPTIONS
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50 .TP
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51 .BI -s\ subject
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52 Specify a subject line for the bug report. Spaces in the subject must
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53 be quoted.
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54 .SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
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55 .B
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56 octave-bug
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57 uses the environment variables
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58 .BR USER,
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59 .BR EDITOR,
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60 and
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61 .B PAGER
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62 which can be used for customization.
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63 .SH VERSION
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64 This document was last revised for Octave version 2.0.16.
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65 .SH SEE ALSO
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66 .BR octave (1),
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67 .BR bashbug (1)
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68 .SH AUTHOR
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69 .nf
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70 John W. Eaton
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71 Department of Chemical Engineering
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72 University of Wisconsin-Madison
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73 Madison, WI 53706
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74 USA
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75 <jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu>