Question

[Ben Abbott]

On Jun 3, 2009, at 2:39 AM, Sobczyk Adam wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Abbott [mailto:bpabbott at mac.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 3:19 PM
> To: Sobczyk Adam
> Cc: help at octave.org
> Subject: Re: Question
>
>> On Jun 2, 2009, at 8:15 AM, Sobczyk Adam wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> Does Octave supports Matlab functions: urlread and urlwrite?
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Adam Sobczy
>>
>> I can't confirm the Octave's versions are fully compatible with  
>> Matlab's,
>> but they are present.
>>
>> Ben
>
> Thanks, Ben. What are their names? What about sendmail?
>
> Adam

The names are the same. Below you can see the help for urlread.  
Sendmail does not exist in Octave.

Ben


octave:3> help urlread
`urlread' is a function from the file /Users/bpabbott/Development/ 
mercurial/local_clone/src/urlwrite.oct

  -- Loadable Function: S = urlread (URL)
  -- Loadable Function: [S, SUCCESS] = urlread (URL)
  -- Loadable Function: [S, SUCCESS, MESSAGE] = urlread (URL)
  -- Loadable Function: [...] = urlread (URL, METHOD, PARAM)
      Download a remote file specified by its URL and return its content
      in string S.  For example,

           s = urlread ("ftp://ftp.octave.org/pub/octave/README");

      The variable SUCCESS is 1 if the download was successful,
      otherwise it is 0 in which case MESSAGE contains an error message.
      If no output argument is specified and if an error occurs, then
      the error is signaled through Octave's error handling mechanism.

      This function uses libcurl.  Curl supports, among others, the  
HTTP,
      FTP and FILE protocols.  Username and password may be specified in
      the URL.  For example,

           s = urlread ("http://user:password@example.com/file.txt");

      GET and POST requests can be specified by METHOD and PARAM.  The
      parameter METHOD is either `get' or `post' and PARAM is a cell
      array of parameter and value pairs.  For example,

           s = urlread ("http://www.google.com/search", "get",
                       {"query", "octave"});

      See also: urlwrite