octave-bug(1)						      General Commands Manual						     octave-bug(1)

NAME

       octave-bug - report a bug in GNU Octave

SYNOPSIS

       octave-bug [-s subject]

DESCRIPTION

       octave-bug is a shell script to help the user compose and mail bug reports concerning Octave in a standard format.  octave-bug is typically
       invoked by the Octave command 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 octave-bug outside of Octave.

       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.

OPTIONS

       -s subject
	      Specify a subject line for the bug report.  Spaces in the subject must be quoted.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       octave-bug uses the environment variables USER, EDITOR, and PAGER which can be used for customization.

VERSION

       This document was last revised for Octave version 2.0.16.

SEE ALSO

       octave(1), bashbug(1)

AUTHOR

       John W. Eaton
       Department of Chemical Engineering
       University of Wisconsin-Madison
       Madison, WI 53706
       USA
       <jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu>

GNU
								   6 March 2000 						     octave-bug(1)