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+.\" Man page for octave-bug
+.\"
+.\" Copyright (C) 1996 - 2000 John W. Eaton
+.\"
+.\" This file is part of Octave.
+.\"
+.\" Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+.\" under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
+.\" Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any
+.\" later version.
+.\"
+.\" Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+.\" ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+.\" FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
+.\" for more details.
+.\"
+.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+.\" along with Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the Free
+.\" Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA
+.\" 02111-1307, USA.
+.\"
+.\" This page was contributed by Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
+.\" 
+.TH octave-bug 1 "6 March 2000" GNU
+.LO 1
+.SH NAME
+octave-bug \- report a bug in GNU Octave
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B octave-bug
+.RB [\| \-s
+.IR subject \|]
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B octave-bug
+is a shell script to help the user compose and mail bug reports
+concerning Octave in a standard format.  
+.B octave-bug
+is typically invoked by the Octave command
+.B 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 \fBoctave-bug\fR outside of Octave.
+.PP
+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.
+.SH OPTIONS
+.TP
+.BI -s\  subject
+Specify a subject line for the bug report.  Spaces in the subject must
+be quoted.
+.SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
+.B 
+octave-bug 
+uses the environment variables
+.BR USER, 
+.BR EDITOR, 
+and 
+.B PAGER 
+which can be used for customization.
+.SH VERSION
+This document was last revised for Octave version 2.0.16.
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR octave (1),
+.BR bashbug (1)     
+.SH AUTHOR
+.nf
+John W. Eaton
+Department of Chemical Engineering
+University of Wisconsin-Madison
+Madison, WI 53706
+USA
+<jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu>