Re: possible bug with plot command?

[Ben Abbott]

On Oct 21, 2011, at 7:07 PM, Jeremy Brower wrote:

> Hi all. I'm a long time MATLAB user, and have very recently installed Octave 
> (3.2.4) to check it out. I've got a weird issue going on with the plot 
> command. Let's say I have a new, empty workspace, and I enter the command:
> 
> figure(1),plot([1:3],[1:3])
> 
> I get the warning message: "warning: isstr is obsolete and will be removed 
> from a future version of Octave, please use ischar instead", and no figure 
> window shows up. I can continue hitting enter, or entering other commands, 
> and no figure window ever appears. Only when I enter "clear all" does 
> figure(1) show up and show the original plot I've asked for.
> 
> Am I doing something wrong to deserve this behavior?
> 
> Thanks for the help.

I don't recall this being reported before. What OS are you running?

Ben