From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Fri Oct 10 11:47:49 1997
Subject: Re: archive retrieval: welcome.txt
From: "Raymond E. Rogers" <rrogers at voyager dot net>
To: "bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu" <bug-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 12:47:48 -0400

The following is a cut&paste of a gammai failure.  Could I get others to
check if it is a octave failure or some failure in my Linux machine? 
Notice that it is corrected with the "whitspace" command.

Enjoy
Ray

*************session***********
/root# octave --braindead
Octave, version 2.0.9 (i586-pc-linux-gnu).
Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 John W. Eaton.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details, type `warranty'.

>> gammai(7,8)
parse error near line 78 of file
/usr/local/share/octave/2.0.9/m/specfun/gammai.m

>>>     u   = [zeros (1, len); ones (1, len)];
                         ^

error: `gammai' undefined near line 1 column 1
error: evaluating index expression near line 1, column 1
>> whitespace_in_literal_matrix=""
whitespace_in_literal_matrix = 
>> gammai(7,8)
ans = 0.68663
>>