Bug#341906: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#341906: octave prints copyright/debugging information on stdout instead of stderr

["John W. Eaton" <jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu>]

On  3-Dec-2005, Frederik Eaton wrote:

| Package: octave2.9
| Version: 2.9.4-8
| Severity: normal
| 
| My version of Octave prints copyright/debugging information on stdout
| instead of stderr... It would be better to have it on stderr so that I
| can redirect just the output to a pipe or a file.

I don't think this is a bug.

If you don't want the startup message, then start Octave with -q.

jwe