Re: octave + shell escape

[Daniel Heiserer]

Hi John W. Eaton, 
> | but what about the "!". i have lots of m-files from matlab running with
> | the "!".
> 
> I'm afraid you are out of luck because Octave uses `!' to be the
> logical not operator, and I have no plans to change that.
> 
> Why do you use shell escapes in so many places?

I have external routines (lets say translaters, which read matrices
from other sources) writing a mat-file, and a m-file. 
I 1st call the shell escape, than i read the m-file the shell-escape
produced. It's a sort of communication.

Bye Daniel