buffer (signal)?

[Ben Abbott]

On Thursday, April 10, 2008, at 12:59PM, "Sciss" <contact at sciss.de> wrote:
>hi,
>
>i am trying to run a function that was written for matlab. it breaks  
>because the function 'buffer' is missing, something that creates an  
>overlapped-chunk version of a vector. on octave-forge's documentation  
>site, it is stated:
>
>"buffer  [signal] -- not implemented"
>
>... so i assume this function is missing? i installed the signal  
>package but no luck. any clues how i can get a 'buffer' function for  
>octave?
>
>thanks a lot! cheers, -sciss-
>
>

>From the most recent Matlab (7.6)

>> which buffer
'buffer' not found.
>> 

Apparently "buffer" is not a core Matlab function.

By chance is the function you're looking for actually a class? ... for example,

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/loadFile.do?objectId=14087

If not, can you tell us what "buffer" is supposed to do?

Ben