From bug-octave-request  Sun Jun 13 10:10:41 1993
From: romolo at prix1 dot pr dot infn dot it (Laboratorio Ottica)
To: bug-octave
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 93 17:09:41 +0200

Dear Octave mantainers,
i have notice you have tried to make Octave as much as possible Matlab
compatible, but in my octave version (0.71.1) there is no way to concatenate
strings in matlab fashion. Well, i have to say that this release was
compiled by me under LINUX (an unix for PC) but during compilation nothing
but a mistake in builtin.cc happened. (the mistake happened in a section
concerning npsol) 
For this reason i thing you have missed during developping the compatibility
of the ';' operator with strings.
Another thing missed is the capabilities of reading simple ascii files
without header (i'm trying btw to make my own fix to it).
Apart from the two reported thing Octave is a wonderful product, and I
really hope you will continue to improve it.
For what concern supporting, is there a Octave contribution list ?
I will like to contribute with some useful .m files originally written by
me for data processing (filters smoothers and other stuff).

Best regards
						Romolo Manfredini


P.S. Excuse me for my english. (It needs more improvements than Octave)


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