Re: 3.0.4 RC3 (mingw 3.4.5)-2

[John W. Eaton]

On 30-Jan-2009, Benjamin Lindner wrote:

| To work around it in octave we need to rethink octave's way to save 
| anonymous function handles in ascii format.
| I have tried something for in the development branch, which allows this 
| test to pass, but it means a small but significant change in the format 
| of saving anonymous function handles. This breaks backwards 
| compatibility, so I'm not really happy about my approach.

We can open text files for reading in binary mode.  It just means that
we have to handle the CRLF, CR, and LF line endings ourselves.  We
already do that (more or less) for .m files.  But it would maybe be a
good idea to come up with a unified way of doing it for all of Octave.

jwe