Re: inadequate/inconsisten 'help pkg' message; problems with downloading

[Sergei Steshenko]

Building the bundle I've noticed, among others, these warnings:

"
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/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/lib/octave/packages/linear-algebra-2.0.0/i686-pc-linux-gnu-api-v45+/mgorth.oct
 shadows a core library function
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/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/multicore-0.2.15/gethostname.m
 shadows a built-in function
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/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/oct2mat-1.0.7/arg.m
 shadows a built-in function
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/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/oct2mat-1.0.7/fflush.m
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/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/oct2mat-1.0.7/file_in_loadpath.m
 shadows a built-in function
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/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/oct2mat-1.0.7/file_in_path.m
 shadows a built-in function
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/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/oct2mat-1.0.7/rindex.m
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/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/oct2mat-1.0.7/substr.m
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/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/oct2mat-1.0.7/toascii.m
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/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/oct2mat-1.0.7/tolower.m
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/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/oct2mat-1.0.7/toupper.m
 shadows a built-in function
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/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/plot-1.0.8/colstyle.m
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/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/specfun-1.0.9/erfcx.m
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/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/statistics-1.0.10/fstat.m
 shadows a core library function
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/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/statistics-1.0.10/prctile.m
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/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/strings-1.0.7/strtrim.m
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".

I am first of all concerned regarding warnings from oct2mat-1.0.7 - if I
understand correctly (from
http://octave.sourceforge.net/oct2mat/overview.html
) the warning producing functions are not implemented in the first place.

Are these warnings supposed to be ? Do they result from the package or from
'octave' itself ?

Thanks,
  Sergei.