From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Oct 12 05:15:36 1995
Subject: Detecting Octave
From: Eyal Doron <doron at goofy dot mpi-hd dot mpg dot de>
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu (Octave mailing list)
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 11:04:55 +0100 (MET)

Hi,
   I would like an .m file to detect if its running under Matlab or
Octave. Anybody have a generic solution?

Before you start, things like

if exist(whitespace_in_literal_matrix)

don't work. I could search for .m files which exist in one and not the
other, but that is inelegant and version dependent. Any other way? If not,
maybe a builtin function should be included in the future?

Eyal Doron