Re: private directories

[Ben Abbott]

On Mar 1, 2012, at 10:43 PM, Muhali <address@hidden> wrote:

> I noticed that private directories are treated differently in matlab and
> octave. If in a function a file from the private directory is loaded this is
> recognized by matlab but not by octave, as in the following example where
> foo.mat resides in /foo/private:
> 
> -------------------
> % /foo/fun.m
> function y = fun()
>   load foo.mat
> end
> -------------------
> 
> %> cd /foo; octave --no-init-file -q
> octave:> fun
> error: load: unable to find file foo.mat
> error: called from:
> error:   /foo/fun.m at line 3, column 4
> 
> Should this be considered a bug or a missing feature?
> 
> M.

This is a bug.

Ben