Change of current context ? (whos -file ...)

[David Bateman]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> OK, can you send me your preliminary changes as a diff that I could
> apply to look at the scoping problem?  What is the symptom of the
> problem?  How does it fail?


I believe the changset attached is correct, though you might want to 
check that I got the scoping correct. In any case


a = randn(2,2)
save file.mat a
clear a
b = 1
global c
c = randn(3,2)
whos -file file.mat
a
b
c

returns what I'd expect it to return.

Regards
David
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