To make Octave more MATLAB-compatible, put the following statements in your `~/.octaverc' file, or use the command line option `--traditional', which implies all of these settings. Note that this list may not be complete, because some new variables may have been introduced since this document was last updated. 

  PS1 = ">> "
  PS2 = ""
  beep_on_error = 1.0
  default_eval_print_flag = 0.0
  default_save_format = "mat-binary"
  define_all_return_values = 1.0
  do_fortran_indexing = 1.0
  empty_list_elements_ok = 1.0
  fixed_point_format = 1.0
  implicit_num_to_str_ok = 1.0
  implicit_str_to_num_ok = 1.0
  ok_to_lose_imaginary_part = 1.0
  page_screen_output = 0.0
  prefer_column_vectors = 0.0
  prefer_zero_one_indexing = 1.0
  print_empty_dimensions = 0.0
  treat_neg_dim_as_zero = 1.0
  warn_function_name_clash = 0.0
  whitespace_in_literal_matrix = "traditional"

