Re: Behavior of 'mkdir'

[John W. Eaton]

On 23-Jul-2008, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:

| OK, I take the point.

Just to be clear, I'm certainly not saying it is idiotic to want to do
the right thing, just that we seem to have a lot of users who, when
they are in a situation like I described, appear to conclude that
those of us working on Octave must be idiots for not understanding
clearly how Matlab works.  Or at least that's what I get from reading
some of the messages on the lists.

| In that case, I suppose the issue should be
| mentioned explicitly in the docs, because there are plenty of Octave
| users without much prior exposition to Matlab, and if I were to guess
| the behaviour, I would guess the way it works now.

Docs?  Well, at least we could point to it when there are complaints.
It's funny, people complain about insufficient documentation, but does
anyone actually read the manual?

jwe