Full_Name: Manfred Georg Version: 2.4.0 OS: linux Submission from: (NULL) (128.252.166.190) Hello, I would like to see a command line flag --interactive (--no-interactive) or similar, to explicitly set whether we are in interactive mode on startup (default, of course, remaining whether input is from a tty or not). I had to hack the source so that I could take input from a named pipe and get the behavior I wanted, and that seems silly to me. octave, provides exactly such a flag, which I used, and it worked wonderfully. This is a quick fix, I can provide a patch if you want. Thank you, Manfred