--- a/doc/ChangeLog	Tue Mar 07 04:00:21 2000 +0000
+++ b/doc/ChangeLog	Tue Mar 07 05:09:29 2000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2000-03-06  John W. Eaton  <jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
+
+	* interpreter/octave-bug.1: New file.
+	* interpreter/Makefile.in (install install-strip): Install it.
+	(DISTFILES, BINDISTFILES): Add it to the
+
 2000-02-23  John W. Eaton  <jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
 
 	* interpreter/Makefile.in (clean): Also delete munge-texi,

--- a/doc/interpreter/Makefile.in	Tue Mar 07 04:00:21 2000 +0000
+++ b/doc/interpreter/Makefile.in	Tue Mar 07 05:09:29 2000 +0000
@@ -38,13 +38,13 @@
 
 FORMATTED = octave.dvi octave.ps octave.info octave.info-[0-9]* octave_*.html
 
-DISTFILES = Makefile.in dir munge-texi.cc Map-s.cc octave.1 \
+DISTFILES = Makefile.in dir munge-texi.cc Map-s.cc octave.1 octave-bug.1 \
   $(SOURCES) $(TEXINFO) $(FORMATTED)
 
 ifeq ($(wildcard octave.info), )
-  BINDISTFILES = $(addprefix $(srcdir)/, octave.1 $(FORMATTED))
+  BINDISTFILES = $(addprefix $(srcdir)/, octave.1 octave-bug.1 $(FORMATTED))
 else
-  BINDISTFILES = $(srcdir)/octave.1 $(FORMATTED)
+  BINDISTFILES = $(srcdir)/octave.1 $(srcdir)/octave-bug.1 $(FORMATTED)
 endif
 
 # Look for version.h to get version information.
@@ -117,6 +117,9 @@
 	  rm -f $(man1dir)/octave$(man1ext); \
 	  echo "installing $(srcdir)/octave.1 in $(man1dir)"; \
 	  $(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/octave.1 $(man1dir)/octave$(man1ext); \
+	  rm -f $(man1dir)/octave-bug$(man1ext); \
+	  echo "installing $(srcdir)/octave-bug.1 in $(man1dir)"; \
+	  $(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/octave-bug.1 $(man1dir)/octave-bug$(man1ext); \
 	fi
 	@if test -d $(infodir); then \
 	  rm -f $(infodir)/octave.info*; \

--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/doc/interpreter/octave-bug.1	Tue Mar 07 05:09:29 2000 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+.\" Man page for octave-bug
+.\"
+.\" Copyright (C) 1996 - 2000 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, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA
+.\" 02111-1307, USA.
+.\"
+.\" This page was contributed by Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
+.\" 
+.TH octave-bug 1 "6 March 2000" GNU
+.LO 1
+.SH NAME
+octave-bug \- report a bug in GNU Octave
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B octave-bug
+.RB [\| \-s
+.IR subject \|]
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B octave-bug
+is a shell script to help the user compose and mail bug reports
+concerning Octave in a standard format.  
+.B octave-bug
+is typically invoked by the Octave command
+.B bug_report
+which is intended to be called interactively from within Octave. This
+provides the best way to submit a bug report for Octave. It creates a
+template bug report file and starts an editor on that file.  The bug report
+will be sent to the bug-octave mailing list once the editing has been
+completed (this assumes of course that your system can use email). However,
+the user could also call \fBoctave-bug\fR outside of Octave.
+.PP
+Please read the `Bugs' chapter in the Octave manual to find out how to submit
+a bug report that will enable the Octave maintainers to fix the problem.  If
+you are unable to use the bug_report command, send your message to the
+bug-octave mailing list, bug-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu.
+.SH OPTIONS
+.TP
+.BI -s\  subject
+Specify a subject line for the bug report.  Spaces in the subject must
+be quoted.
+.SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
+.B 
+octave-bug 
+uses the environment variables
+.BR USER, 
+.BR EDITOR, 
+and 
+.B PAGER 
+which can be used for customization.
+.SH VERSION
+This document was last revised for Octave version 2.0.16.
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR octave (1),
+.BR bashbug (1)     
+.SH AUTHOR
+.nf
+John W. Eaton
+Department of Chemical Engineering
+University of Wisconsin-Madison
+Madison, WI 53706
+USA
+<jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu>