Re: 'octave' and 'matio'

[Sergei Steshenko]

--- On Wed, 8/3/11, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:

> From: John W. Eaton <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: 'octave' and 'matio'
> To: "Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso" <address@hidden>
> Cc: "Sergei Steshenko" <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> Date: Wednesday, August 3, 2011, 10:54 AM
> On  3-Aug-2011, Jordi Gutiérrez
> Hermoso wrote:
> 
> | > Also, you could probably shed some light on
> | >
> | > https://mailman.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/help-octave/2011-August/046850.html
> | >
> | > - if it is related to Matlab IO.
> | 
> | No, oct2mat has nothing to do with mat file IO. I have no
> further
> | insight on this matter.
> 
> My understanding is that oct2mat provides a set of
> functions that are
> available in Octave but not Matlab, along with a way to
> convert
> functions written for Octave so that they can run in
> Matlab.  There
> are two parts to this.  First, a translation of some
> simple things
> like comment and string quote styles, then some functions
> to provide
> things that Octave has and Matlab doesn't.  As I
> understand it, you
> aren't supposed to install those funtions with Octave,
> since Octave
> already has them.  You are supposed to use them if you
> want to run
> Octave code with some interpreter that doesn't provide
> those
> functions.
> 
> jwe
> 

I don't understand. If I install the _package_, some functions get
overridden. I.e. I do not control the functions, I just install the
package.

Is it OK in this case that some functions get overridden ?

Thanks,
  Sergei.