From help-request at octave dot org Wed Dec 21 10:42:00 2005
Subject: Re: function names
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: David dot Bateman at motorola dot com
Cc: michaelschmid1 at bluewin dot ch, help@octave.org
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 11:40:16 -0500

On 21-Dec-2005, David Bateman wrote:

| It would have been better that 
| minmax.oct was called max.oct and min.oct was a symbolic link to 
| max.oct. The problem is as you've found if you name a function minmax 
| octave find the file minmax.oct and then can't use your function... The 
| workaround is as you said, don't use the function name minmax....

Or, if you really need the minmax name before this problem is fixed
properly in the Octave sources, you can do this renaming by hand in
your installed copy.

jwe



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