From maintainers-request at octave dot org Sat Apr 15 20:06:23 2006
Subject: Jump from 2.1.65 to 2.9.5
From: Daniel J Sebald <daniel dot sebald at ieee dot org>
To: octave maintainers mailing list <maintainers at octave dot org>
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 20:13:56 -0500

I've upgraded from 2.1.65 to 2.9.5 and notice a couple things so far:

1) What I used to use in 2.1.65 is:

    [output,status] = system([gnuplot_binary " --version"]);

and I've had to switch that to:

    [status,output] = system([gnuplot_binary " --version"]);

in 2.9.5.  The documentation still reads:

     The `system' function can return two values.  The first is the
     exit status of the command and the second is any output from the
     command that was written to the standard output stream.  For
     example,

          [output, status] = system ("echo foo; exit 2");

     will set the variable `output' to the string `foo', and the
     variable `status' to the integer `2'.


2) In something like sprintf('e\n') the '\n' is interpretted correctly.  However, in __gnuplot_raw('e\n') the escape character is treated as '\' and 'n'.  (I assume it was desired to behave that way.)

Dan