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Add new functions hgsave and hgload (bug #39532). * NEWS: Announce new functions. * scripts/plot/util/hgload.m: New function. * scripts/plot/util/hgsave.m: New function. * scripts/plot/util/module.mk: Add functions to build system. * hdl2struct.m, print.m, saveas.m, struct2hdl.m: Add seealso references to new functions in docstrings. * plot.txi: Add functions to Octave manual. * __unimplemented__.m: Remove functions from unimplemented list.
author Massimiliano Fasi <mogrob.sanit@gmail.com> and Rik <rik@octave.org>
date Thu, 06 Mar 2014 22:52:59 +0100
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1 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 4.2:
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4 ** Other new functions added in 4.2:
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7 hgload
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11 ** Deprecated functions.
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13 The following functions have been deprecated in Octave 4.2 and will
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14 be removed from Octave 4.6 (or whatever version is the second major
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20 The following functions were deprecated in Octave 3.8 and have been
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21 removed from Octave 4.2.
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23 default_save_options java_new
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24 gen_doc_cache java_set
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25 interp1q java_unsigned_conversion
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26 isequalwithequalnans javafields
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27 java_convert_matrix javamethods
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28 java_debug re_read_readline_init_file
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29 java_get read_readline_init_file
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30 java_invoke saving_history
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32 The following keywords were deprecated in Octave 3.8 and have been
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33 removed from Octave 4.2
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35 static
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37 The following configuration variables were deprecated in Octave 3.8
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38 and have been removed from Octave 4.2
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40 CC_VERSION (now GCC_VERSION)
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41 CXX_VERSION (now GXX_VERSION)
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43 The internal class <Octave_map> was deprecated in Octave 3.8 and has
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44 been removed from Octave 4.2. Replacement classes are
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45 <octave_map> (struct array) or <octave_scalar_map> for a single structure.
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47 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 4.0:
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50 ** For compatibility with Matlab, the "backtrace" warning option is now
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51 enabled by default.
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53 ** The preference
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55 do_braindead_shortcircuit_evaluation
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57 is now enabled by default.
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59 ** The preference
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63 is now enabled by default and the warning ID
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65 Octave:noninteger-range-as-index
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70 ** polyeig now returns a row vector of eigenvalues rather than a matrix
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72 compatibility.
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78 ** Deprecated functions.
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80 The following functions were deprecated in Octave 3.6 and have been
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83 cut polyderiv
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84 cor shell_cmd
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85 corrcoef studentize
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86 __error_text__ sylvester_matrix
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87 error_text
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89 The following functions have been deprecated in Octave 4.0 and will
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98 See NEWS.3 for old news.