From maintainers-request at octave dot org Sat Oct 22 13:46:21 2005
Subject: Re: Package system
From: Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at users dot sourceforge dot net>
To: octave maintainers mailing list <maintainers at octave dot org>
Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Hauberg?= <soren at hauberg dot org>
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 14:45:44 -0400


On Oct 21, 2005, at 1:18 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

>   * We should make the untar function compatible with Matlab's untar
>     function and include it with Octave.  (Maybe implement the tar,
>     zip, unzip, gzip, and gunzip functions at the same time.)

The name 'tar' collides with a function in octave-forge.  This
should be removed or renamed.  Note that it is used by functions
in vrml as well.

- Paul