Re: gunzip incompatible

[Mats Hedlund]

Thomas Weber wrote:
> Am Montag, den 28.01.2008, 15:03 -0700 schrieb Mats Hedlund:
>   
>> Thomas Weber wrote:
>>     
>>> extension (by the way, .odf can be extracted by unzip, not gunzip)?
>>>   
>>>       
>> Really? Not straight from octave anyway. Maybe you mean using shell
>> prompt: unix('unzip file.ods')?
>>     
>
> Uh, I meant that from the shell. .odf files or more generally, all
> OO.org formats are zipped rather than gzipped. Your are right that
> currently Octave is limited to a specific set of extensions.
>
>   
>> This works but it would be nice to be able to use unzip.m (or gunzip.m,
>> for matlab compatibility).
>>     
> Well, actually I think that Matlab should at least issue a warning here,
> as it is clearly not using gunzip for extraction. However, it seems it
> does:
>
> ========================================================================
>   
>>> gunzip('v.ods')
>>>       
> ??? Error using ==> gunzip>gunzipwrite
> File "/tmp/z/v.ods" is not in GZIP format.
>
> Error in ==> gunzip>gunzipEntries at 99
>   names{end+1} = gunzipwrite(entries(i).file, outputDir, baseName,
> streamCopier);
>
> Error in ==> gunzip at 54
>    names = gunzipEntries(entries, outputDir);
>
>   
>>> ver
>>>       
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> MATLAB Version 7.1.0.183 (R14) Service Pack 3
> ========================================================================
>
> Which version of Matlab are you using? 
>
>       Thomas
>
>
>
>   
I believe John brought this zipping discussion to maintainers list.
As far as matlab is concerned, I use it as little as possible :). I do
all serious number crunching in octave. But if it helps I'm on 7.5.
Mainly for plotting, but as plotting gets better in octave I'm looking
forward to a future in complete freedom and without any silly matlab
GUI's. The prompt rules and octave is an order of magnitude more stable.
/Mats