[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #34118] Poor/incomplete doc in help

[anonymous]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?34118>

                 Summary: Poor/incomplete doc in help
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Wed 24 Aug 2011 05:37:20 PM UTC
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Documentation
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 3.4.0
        Operating System: Any

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Details:

I am just learning to use octave but am continually held back by the
poor/incomplete documentation. 

ex: help text for ols and gls are basically carbon copies of each other , so
what the difference in the two functions. There's no explanation whatsoever.
ols is simply replaced by gls, nothing else.

doc command is supposed to give "more detail" but the text is identical. 

Do I have to read the source to find out what these functions do ?




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