'fstat' compatibility issue

[Søren Hauberg]

Hi All

It was mentioned on the Octave-Forge list that the 'statistics' package
has a function called 'fstat' that clashes with the function of the same
name in Octave. This is bad.

Matlab has a function called 'fstat' that does the same as the function
in the 'statistics' package. For compatibility, I think we should rename
the 'fstat' function in core Octave into something else. This will,
however, break applications that use the 'fstat' function from core
Octave.

Any thoughts on how to deal with this issue?

Soren