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+## Copyright (C) 2008-2012 Ben Abbott
+##
+## 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 3 of the License, 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, see
+## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {} __finish__ ()
+## Undocumented internal function.
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Check for the existence of the function/script, @file{finish}, in the
+## path or current working directory and execute it. This function is
+## intended to be excecuted upon a clean exit form Octave. This is
+## accomplished in the system script @file{startup/octaverc} by use of
+## the built-in function @code{onexit}.
+
+function __finish__ ()
+
+ if (exist ("finish", "file"))
+ ## No arg list here since finish might be a script.
+ finish;
+ endif
+
+endfunction
+
+## No test needed for internal helper function.
+%!assert (1)