system command status/output order changed in 2.9.x

[John W. Eaton]

On 21-Sep-2006, Joshua Rigler wrote:

| The output order of Octave's 'system' command seems to have changed 
| since 2.1.x.  It used to be:
| 
|  > [output, status] = system(sys_cmd);
| 
| 
| It is now (in 2.9.8):
| 
|  > [status, output] = system(sys_cmd);
| 
| 
| It seems to me that this warrants a note in the new 'NEWS' file 
| (distributed in the source code tar-ball or via CVS),

OK, I will make a note of this as it is a relatively important and
user-visible change.

| along with all the other changes due in Octave 3.x,

I don't think that is feasible at this point.

jwe