From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Wed Dec  2 18:14:52 1998
Subject: OCTAVE: Matlab v5 Compat.
From: Darren Farmer <farmer at cwr dot uwa dot edu dot au>
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 08:14:03 +0800 (WST)



Hi all,

I am interested to gauge how compatible octave is with the current 
version of Matlab (v5) or implementations that look to maintain 
compatibility (if any).  The on-line info implies quite significant 
compatibility with v4.

I use Matlab v5 for research work but am looking to running OCTAVE on 
linux at home - hopefully with the same code PLUS !

One area that I am really keen on is the ability to 
use 'load' on ASCII files with comments embedded (lines begin % - as for 
Matlab v5 BUT NOT in v4)  and ability to load matlab v5 *.mat files.

thanks

Darren Farmer