Error when using aload

[Jean-Michel besnard]

Hi,

I am trying to load a dummy ASCII text file using aload.
Here is the output I am getting:

--START-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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octave:1> aload("/tmp/foo")
error: load: failed to load matrix constant
error: load: reading file /tmp/oct-COqQd8
error: called from `aload' in file 
`/usr/share/octave/site/m/octave-ci/filefun/aload.m'

--STOP------------------------------------------------------------------------

I have tried the same on another machine running octave 2.0.17 and get the same
error.


Thanks,

Jean-Michel



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