From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Jan 21 21:48:18 1999
Subject: Ungraceful exit on strange error
From: sands2 at home dot com
To: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 22:47:16 -0500

Octave 2.0.13.93 on a i686-linux-pc dumps core rather harshly 
when ....

implicit_str_to_num_ok=0

and ...

k=9
evalstring=sprintf("save -mat-binary p%04d.mat",k)
eval(evalstring)

if 
implicit_str_to_num_ok=1

then everything works as expected.

I'm only complaining about the 
ungraceful handling of this error.

Scott Sands