[Changeset] imfinfo

[John W. Eaton]

On 25-Sep-2008, soren at hauberg.org wrote:

| Quoting "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo.che.wisc.edu>:
| 
| > 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,
| 
| Thanks -- I thought 'urlwrite' allowed you to write data to some given  
| url (i.e. save data on some server), but I was mistaken. I do think  
| there's a problem with the changes you made. If a file is downloaded  
| from some url, it looks like it won't be deleted when we're done with  
| it. I mean, shouldn't there be an
| 
|    if (file_was_downloaded)
|      unlink (fn)
|    endif
| 
| at the end of the function?

I made the following changes.

Thanks,

jwe

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