difference between path / pathdef

[Ben Abbott]

On Jan 15, 2008, at 9:39 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 15-Jan-2008, Ben Abbott wrote:
>
> |    [1,2] =   path ('.:/sw/share/...
> | ...
> | .../m/time');
>
> I haven't looked at the way __extractpath__ works, but it seems that
> it would be fairly easy to have it simply return what is between the
> single quotes as a character string, then you could just write
>
>  path (__extractpath__ (user_octaverc));
>
> In any case, I don't see why __extractpath__ should return everything
> including the comments in a cell array with one line per cell.
>
> jwe



I've made the changes and built with the result. Everything appears to  
be working.

The modified patch & ChangeLog is attached.

Ben

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