--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/scripts/miscellaneous/dump_1_pref.m	Thu Oct 13 16:57:33 1994 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+# Copyright (C) 1994 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 2, 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, write to the Free
+# Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
+
+function dump_1_pref (file, var)
+
+  if (nargin != 2)
+    error ("usage: dump_1_pref (file, var)");
+  endif
+
+  eval (sprintf ("tmp = %s;", var));
+
+  if (isstr (tmp))
+    fprintf (file, "  %s = \"%s\"\n", var, undo_string_escapes (tmp));
+  elseif (is_scalar (tmp))
+    fprintf (file, "  %s = %g\n", var, tmp);
+  else
+    fprintf (file, "  %s = \"wrong type arg\"\n", var);
+  endif
+
+endfunction

--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/scripts/miscellaneous/dump_prefs.m	Thu Oct 13 16:57:33 1994 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+# Copyright (C) 1994 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 2, 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, write to the Free
+# Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
+
+function dump_prefs (file)
+
+# usage: dump_prefs (file)
+#
+# Have Octave dump all the current user preference variables to FILE
+# in a format that can be parsed by Octave later.  If FILE is omitted,
+# the listing is printed to stdout.
+
+  if (nargin == 0)
+    file = stdout;
+  endif
+
+# XXX FIXME XXX -- vectors of strings would be really useful here...
+# XXX FIXME XXX -- maybe this should be a built-in function so that we
+# wouldn't have to remember to update it each time the list of
+# preference variables changes
+
+  dump_1_pref (file, "EDITOR");
+  dump_1_pref (file, "IMAGEPATH");
+  dump_1_pref (file, "INFO_FILE");
+  dump_1_pref (file, "LOADPATH");
+  dump_1_pref (file, "OCTAVE_VERSION");
+  dump_1_pref (file, "PAGER");
+  dump_1_pref (file, "PS1");
+  dump_1_pref (file, "PS2");
+  dump_1_pref (file, "automatic_replot");
+  dump_1_pref (file, "commas_in_literal_matrix");
+  dump_1_pref (file, "default_save_format");
+  dump_1_pref (file, "do_fortran_indexing");
+  dump_1_pref (file, "empty_list_elements_ok");
+  dump_1_pref (file, "eps");
+  dump_1_pref (file, "gnuplot_binary");
+  dump_1_pref (file, "ignore_function_time_stamp");
+  dump_1_pref (file, "implicit_str_to_num_ok");
+  dump_1_pref (file, "ok_to_lose_imaginary_part");
+  dump_1_pref (file, "output_max_field_width");
+  dump_1_pref (file, "output_precision");
+  dump_1_pref (file, "page_screen_output");
+  dump_1_pref (file, "prefer_column_vectors");
+  dump_1_pref (file, "prefer_zero_one_indexing");
+  dump_1_pref (file, "print_answer_id_name");
+  dump_1_pref (file, "print_empty_dimensions");
+  dump_1_pref (file, "propagate_empty_matrices");
+  dump_1_pref (file, "resize_on_range_error");
+  dump_1_pref (file, "return_last_computed_value");
+  dump_1_pref (file, "save_precision");
+  dump_1_pref (file, "silent_functions");
+  dump_1_pref (file, "split_long_rows");
+  dump_1_pref (file, "treat_neg_dim_as_zero");
+  dump_1_pref (file, "warn_assign_as_truth_value");
+  dump_1_pref (file, "warn_comma_in_global_decl");
+  dump_1_pref (file, "warn_divide_by_zero");
+
+endfunction