-- using Octave in normal interactive/login shell works fine -- using over SGE's qrsh does not --- no key-bindings -- using "-V" and looking at /proc/123456/environ on compute nodes proved it was not an TERM issue -- but the usual "bind -p" stuff was not happening -- on a compute node doing a "ps auxw | grep username" showed what tree of processes was associated with a qrsh: included a ssh@notty -- apparently "ssh" auto associated a pseudo-tty but "ssh command" does not -- so force with "-t" in the SGE config for qrsh (i.e., /usr/bin/ssh -X -t)