[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #64366] [Octave Packages] (io) : xlswrite doesn't error when asked to save to unwritable location but saves to current folder

[Philip Nienhuis]

Update of bug #64366 (project octave):

                Priority:              5 - Normal => 1 - Later              
                  Status:               Confirmed => Postponed              

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Follow-up Comment #16:

Some debugging confirms that Excel (ActiveX) silently saves to the current
directory if asked to save to an unwritable location. I'm quite sure this used
to work fine in older MS-Office releases.
Perhaps this bug can be circumvented but at the cost of quite a bit of
potentially kludgy code only meant for the COM interface.
I'm not going to spend time on this essentially upstream bug. Maybe someone
will turn up who wants and can fix this.

Setting status to "postponed" and lowering priority


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