From owner-bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Dec 19 22:07:59 1996
Subject: Error in lcm.m.
From: "Carter Shanklin" <cshankli at osf1 dot gmu dot edu>
To: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 23:07:56 -0500 (EST)

You have a slight error with your lcm function. To demonstrate...

$ cat temp3
lcm(3, 4, 5)
$ octave < temp3
Octave, version 2.0 (sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1).
Copyright (C) 1996 John W. Eaton.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details, type `warranty'.

parse error near line 36 of file /opt/octave-2.0/share/octave/2.0/m/elfun/lcm.m

>>>   endif
          ^

error: `function' command matched by `endif' near line 36 column 3
error: parse error while reading function file /opt/octave-2.0/share/octave/2.0/m/elfun/lcm.m
error: `lcm' undefined near line 1 column 1
error: evaluating index expression near line 1, column 1

The problem is that line 32 in lcm.m should be 'if (nargin > 1)'. This
fixed the problem for me. (I was going to use your bug_report thingie,
but all that output for such a simple problem? For all I know you've
already caught it.)