Deprecate bitmax. * NEWS: Announce deprecation and replacement functions. * scripts/deprecated/bitmax.m: New function. Add deprecation message to docstring. Add deprecation warning to m-file. * scripts/deprecated/module.mk: Add deprecated versions to build system. * libinterp/corefcn/bitfcns.cc: Remove build-in function. Remove function from docstrings. * libinterp/corefcn/data.cc: Remove function from docstrings. * scripts/general/bitcmp.m: Replace bitmax function calls with flintmax. Remove function from docstrings. * scripts/general/bitget.m: Replace bitmax function calls with flintmax. Remove function from docstrings. * scripts/general/bitset.m: Replace bitmax function calls with flintmax. Remove function from docstrings. * scripts/specfun/factor.m: Replace bitmax function calls with flintmax. Remove function from docstrings. * scripts/statistics/distributions/unidpdf.m: Remove function from docstrings. * scripts/general/num2str.m: Replaced function in comment. * doc/interpreter/doccheck/aspell-octave.en.pws: Remove functions from list. * doc/interpreter/numbers.txi: Remove function from manual.

See the file README.Cygwin for information about installing the binary
package of Octave for Cygwin.

See the file README.MinGW for information about Octave on the MinGW platform
including installation of binaries or compiling Octave from source.


John W. Eaton
jwe@octave.org

Last updated: Sat Jan 22 16:56:05 PST 2011