From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Fri Jan 22 02:52:37 1999
Subject: Re: step?
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Daniel Heiserer <Daniel dot Heiserer at bmw dot de>
Cc: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>,         "help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu" <help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 02:52:59 -0600 (CST)

On 22-Jan-1999, Daniel Heiserer <Daniel dot Heiserer at bmw dot de> wrote:

| Well rewriting a whole bunch of files is a lot of work, but a good idea.
| How can you rewrite something, which src's is available without copying
| at least parts of the code (m-files)???

Don't read the source.

| When I want to rewrite a whole toolbox it should be at least 100% 
| compatible +more features. Otherwise I have really big problems here
| whith the "productivity line" running on matlab.

I don't think I understand what you mean by this statement.

What if you just write a better collection of functions?  Or if you do
some of the work and make it available for others to improve?

jwe