From help-request at octave dot org Fri Feb 18 18:30:28 2005
Subject: Re: problem compiling 2.1.65 on solaris
From: "Dmitri A. Sergatskov" <dmitri at unm dot edu>
To: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
CC: octave help mailing list <help at octave dot org>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 17:33:49 -0700

John W. Eaton wrote:
...
> 
> Please try the following patch and let me know whether it works
> correctly.  For example, try
> 
>   canonicalize_file_name ("/some/file/name/that/includes/symbolic/links")
> 
> and verify that it returns the real name of the file.
> 

That seems to be working:
GNU Octave, version 2.1.65 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8).
Copyright (C) 2004 John W. Eaton.
...
octave:1> canonicalize_file_name ("/usr/local/bin/octave")
ans = /usr/local/bin/octave-2.1.65


> Thanks,
> 
> jwe
> 

Dmitri.
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