From help-request at octave dot org Fri Jun 17 22:18:00 2005
Subject: Re: MAtlab and Octave same code for both
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: SITI HAJAR A BAKAR <siti dot bakar at studentmail dot newcastle dot edu dot au>
Cc: Keith Goodman <kwgoodman at gmail dot com>, help@octave.org
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 23:15:04 -0400

On 17-Jun-2005, Keith Goodman wrote:

| On 6/17/05, SITI HAJAR A BAKAR <siti dot bakar at studentmail dot newcastle dot edu dot au> wrote:
| > Im working on making a toolbox written in MATLAB, to be compatible in
| > both languages.
| > There arent to many incompatibilities, so Im trying to avoid having to

If you find things that are incompatible, please report them.  Perhaps
there is a bug in Octave that should be fixed, or we might be able to
show you another way to do the job that doesn't require two sections
of code.

| > So if in OCtave, I can run this algorithm, and when not... it will run
| > another. I know im being a bit vague, but it would be helpful to know
| > anything. thanks heaps!
| 
| exist('license')

It might be better to check for a variable like OCTAVE_VERSION.  I
think that is unlikely to be defined in Matlab, but we might define a
function called license that displays the GPL.

jwe



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