--- a/scripts/ChangeLog	Mon Jan 17 13:59:35 2011 -0500
+++ b/scripts/ChangeLog	Mon Jan 17 14:33:38 2011 -0500
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2011-01-17  John W. Eaton  <jwe@octave.org>
+
+	* miscellaneous/isdeployed.m: New function.
+	* miscellaneous/module.mk (miscellaneous_FCN_FILES): Add it to
+	the list.  Bug #32151.
+
 2011-01-17  John W. Eaton  <jwe@octave.org>
 
 	* miscellaneous/inputname.m: Use __varval__ to lookup ".argn."

--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/scripts/miscellaneous/isdeployed.m	Mon Jan 17 14:33:38 2011 -0500
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+## Copyright (C) 2011 John W. Eaton
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
+## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
+## your option) any later version.
+##
+## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+## General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, see
+## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {} isdeployed ()
+## Return true if the current program has been compiled and is running
+## separately from the Octave interpreter and false if it is running in
+## the Octave interpreter.  Currently, this function always returns
+## false in Octave.
+## @end deftypefn
+
+function retval = isdeployed ()
+  retval = false;
+endfunction
+
+%!assert (isdeployed (), false)

--- a/scripts/miscellaneous/module.mk	Mon Jan 17 13:59:35 2011 -0500
+++ b/scripts/miscellaneous/module.mk	Mon Jan 17 14:33:38 2011 -0500
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
   miscellaneous/info.m \
   miscellaneous/inputname.m \
   miscellaneous/isappdata.m \
+  miscellaneous/isdeployed.m \
   miscellaneous/ismac.m \
   miscellaneous/ispc.m \
   miscellaneous/isunix.m \