eps Toolkit - ftell that returns a scalar? was Re: subplot

[John W. Eaton]

On 17-Jan-2006, address@hidden wrote:

| The problem is that ftell does not return a scalar, but a "streamoff"
| type (Octave version 2.1.53), which the "/" operator does not
| understand.
| 
| I'm now in search of a replacement ftell function that returns a scalar,
| as I don't think there is a way to typecast streamoff to scalar (?)...

Version 2.1.53 is quite old.  The current version of Octave (2.1.72)
should work as you expect.

jwe



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