octave-2.9.10 stem cmd

[John W. Eaton]

On 17-Apr-2007, A. Scottedward Hodel wrote:

| Under Mac OS 10.4.9, Intel-Mac (Macbook pro) octave -2.9.10, I am  
| encountering an error when using the stem command.
| 
| The first example in the stem help file shows the problem.
| 
| octave:6>           x = 1:10;
| octave:7>           stem (x);
| error: invalid conversion from string to real matrix
| error: invalid RGB color specification
| error: set: expecting argument 2 to be a property name
| error: evaluating if command near line 61, column 3
| error: called from `__line__' in file `/usr/local//share/octave/ 
| 2.9.10/m/plot/__line__.m'
| error: evaluating assignment expression near line 35, column 7
| error: called from `line' in file `/usr/local//share/octave/2.9.10/m/ 
| plot/line.m'
| error: evaluating assignment expression near line 112, column 17
| error: evaluating for command near line 111, column 3
| error: called from `stem' in file `/usr/local//share/octave/2.9.10/m/ 
| plot/stem.m'
| 
| The details of the underlying code are beyond a quick fix on my  
| part.  Can anyone duplicate this error?

I think there were some bug fixes for stem after 2.9.10.  Your example
works for me with the current sources.

jwe