Re: set_window_size and checking for built-in functions

[Robert A. Macy]

That "test" is an absolute necessity BEFORE you proceed...
an irritating problem with the naming of some of the built
in functions.  Their names parbly originated in MatLab,
too, so they have to be kept in octave.  

Fom time to time I "step" on a built in function by naming
a variable with the same name.  Then there follows some
really weird effects.  Usually resulting in having to
restart octave.  

Real nuisance sometimes when I'm doing "scribble" work.  

                    - Robert -

On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 08:22:58 -0700
 Jonathan Stickel <address@hidden> wrote:
> address@hidden wrote:
> > I am treying to port a Matlab script to Octave.  As a
> > newbie, I am having difficulty determining wheter a
> > fucntion is built in or not.  I have search thru the
> > entire scripts I am trying to convert for
> > "set_window_size" but do not find it.  In the manual
> > it also does not turn up.  Is this in gnuplot or
> > elsewhere.
> > 
> 
> As in Matlab, you can always do "help function_name".  If
> you get "not-documented", then that function is not
> installed.  Many extra functions are available in
> octave-forge, and there other octave add-ons as well,
> especially for plotting.  To browse what is in octave and
> octave-forge, look here:
> 
> http://octave.sourceforge.net/index/index.html
> 
> Unfortunately, plotting is the least mature part of
> Octave and least compatible with Matlab.  Fortunately,
> there has been quite a bit of activity lately to improve
> plotting.
> 
> Jonathan
> 



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