R: built-in variables

[Marco Atzeri]

--- Gio 9/7/09, John W. Eaton ha scritto:

> Da: John W. Eaton
> Oggetto: built-in variables
> A: "James R. Van Zandt" 
> Cc: octave-maintainers
> Data: Giovedì 9 luglio 2009, 22:14
> On  9-Jul-2009, James R.. Van
> Zandt wrote:
> 
> | I triggered this message, ran news(), then tracked down
> and read NEWS,
> | but found nothing relating to PS1.  As it happens, I
> was running
> | Octave 3.2 under Cygwin, which doesn't ship the Octave
> 3.0 news file.

Nice to see that someone is using the cygwin package ;-)

> 
> I think you should report that problem to the person
> responsible for
> the Cygwin package.  The NEWS file is installed by
> "make install", so
> the Cygwin package should include it.

the package correctly has the NEWS file as
/usr/share/doc/octave/NEWS

what is not included are the previous NEWS.x files
as make install do not install them.
I will add them on the next 3.2.1 release.

> 
> jwe
> 

Marco Atzeri
cygwin octave mantainer