Oh, no...

[Joao Cardoso]

Hi, 

Most of my m files dont't run with 2.0. The fault is of course
the changed behaviour of scanf family. Shouldn't a compatibility
flag exist, such as octave-1.1.1_mode = 1, such that I just need
to add it at the top of my 'old' m files, instead of changing
all scanf statments? Of course, I can run sed on all my files, but
what about fget (and probably others) changed behaviour, from
[line count] = fgets(...) to just line = fgets(...)?

Do you think that matlab compatibility is more important that
octave compatibility? After all, we are talking of compatibility
with a 1.1.1 release, not a beta one. 

Anyway, thanks for 2.0
Joao

Yes, I read it, but there is really no turnaround?

  * The C-style I/O functions (fopen, fprintf, etc.) have been
    rewritten to be more compatible with Matlab.  The fputs function
    has also been added.  Usage of the *printf functions that was
    allowed in previous versions of Octave should still work.
    However, there is no way to make the new versions of the *scanf
    functions compatible with Matlab *and* previous versions of
    Octave.  An optional argument to the *scanf functions is now
    available to make them behave in a way that is compatible with
    previous versions of Octave.

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