And John W. Eaton writes: > | octave -q --eval 'y = zeros (10, 1, "single"); x = ones (10, 1) + I (); y(:,2) = x;' > I checked in the following change. > http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/ac8f5a159c2c Works for me. Thank you! Jason