From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Tue Mar 17 22:34:07 1998
Subject: String arguments to dynamically linked functions
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Markus Svensen <svensen at cns dot mpg dot de>
Cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:25:57 -0600

On 12-Mar-1998, Markus Svensen <svensen at cns dot mpg dot de> wrote:

| Attached is a bug-report concerning problems in passing string arguments
| to dynamically linked functions.
| 
| Unfortunately, I'm not in a position where I can investigate this one
| myself (I can't compile my own copy of Octave, but have to use the one
| installed on our network).
| 
| Then I have two suggestions for improvement of the (already very good)
| procedures for reporting bugs. It would be nice if
| 
| 1) as an option, it would be possible to send the output of 
|    "bug_report" to a file, rather than to an editor/mail 
|    program.

If you start to send a bug report and then abort, the message is saved
in $HOME/dead-octave-bug.  Also, you can always set EDITOR to
something like "eval cat > file <".  :-)

| 2) all bug-reports (and all the emails sent to help-octave too, 
|    for that matter) were available in a single (gzipped) file  
|    (preferrably w. irrelevant mail headers removed), rather  
|    than as separate files. It would greatly facilitate checking  
|    whether a bug has been found, especially for us on this side  
|    of the Atlantic, when the net is slow (as it usually is ...;-). 

There is at least one site in Europe that has a complete mirror of
ftp://ftp.che.wisc.edu/pub/octave:

  ftp://ftp.math.uni-hamburg.de/pub/soft/math/octave/

This site is listed in the README.mirrors file on the Octave ftp site
and on the `Download' page on the Octave web site.

jwe