[Changeset] imfinfo

[John W. Eaton]

On 24-Sep-2008, Søren Hauberg wrote:

|   The attached changeset implement the 'imfinfo' function for reading
| header information from image files. I'm not sure if this function is
| part of core Matlab or the Image Processing Toolbox. But it was fairly
| easy to add to core Octave, so that's what I'm proposing.

I applied the patch with a few changes, plus I added ChangeLog
entries.  I simplified the code you wrote to download a file given a
URL by using the urlwrite function instead of urlread and fwrite,
fixed the construction of the timestamp, etc.
etc.

Thanks,

jwe