From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Wed Jan 27 22:28:41 1999
Subject: Colon inconsistency between Matlab and Octave
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Arno Peters <A dot W dot Peters at ieee dot org>
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 22:28:29 -0600 (CST)

On 28-Jan-1999, Arno Peters <A dot W dot Peters at ieee dot org> wrote:

| 1) In Matlab, the colon operator _always_ returns a column vector.

Set do_fortran_indexing = 1 or start Octave with --traditional.

| 2) pause flushes buffers in Matlab, not in Octave

Can you please send a complete bug report for this problem to
bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu, including a precise recipe for
reproducing the bug?

Thanks,

jwe