From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Fri Dec 15 16:10:04 2000
Subject: Re: Unidentified subject!
From: teg at redhat dot com (Trond Eivind =?iso-8859-1?q?Glomsr=F8d?=)
To: Steve Sullivan <sullivan at Mathcom dot COM>
Cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: 15 Dec 2000 17:09:08 -0500

Steve Sullivan <sullivan at Mathcom dot COM> writes:

> To: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
> Cc: sullivan
> Subject: binary ctl- at  embedded before the numeric output
> 
> Bug report for Octave 2.1.32 configured for %OCTAVE_CANONICAL_HOST_TYPE%
> 
> Description:
> -----------
> 
> 
> First, many thanks for an excellent tool: I use Octave daily!
> 
> I'm testing 2.1.32, and notice that sometimes the output has
> a binary ctl- at  embedded before the numeric output.
> While many viewing programs like "less" don't show the ctl- at ,
> when I process the Octave output by other programs
> they choke.
> 
> A simple example follows:
> 
> octave tempa > tempb
> 
> ========= file tempa ==========
> delta = .1
> 
> amat = [ delta -1]
> ========= end file tempa ==========
> 
> ========= file tempb ==========
> GNU Octave, version 2.1.32 (i686-pc-linux-gnu).
> Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 John W. Eaton.
> This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> For details, type `warranty'.
> 
> *** This is a development version of Octave.  Development releases
> *** are provided for people who want to help test, debug, and improve
> *** Octave.
> ***
> *** If you want a stable, well-tested version of Octave, you should be
> *** using one of the stable releases (when this development release
> *** was made, the latest stable version was 2.0.16).
> 
> delta = 0.10000
> amat =


This is what I get:
************************************************************************
GNU Octave, version 2.1.32 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu).
Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 John W. Eaton.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details, type `warranty'.

*** This is a development version of Octave.  Development releases
*** are provided for people who want to help test, debug, and improve
*** Octave.
***
*** If you want a stable, well-tested version of Octave, you should be
*** using one of the stable releases (when this development release
*** was made, the latest stable version was 2.0.16).

delta = 0.10000
amat =

   0.10000  -1.00000
************************************************************************

Make sure you have all updates applied... I would also recommend you
to get the compiler and libstdc++ from rawhide (they are currently in
testing for formal release, but we don't know of any problems with it
currently barring a couple of SPARC bugs)
-- 
Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.



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