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Re: Matlab incompatibility: cd and which
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PhilipNienhuis |
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Re: Matlab incompatibility: cd and which |
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Mon, 14 Oct 2013 13:03:35 -0700 (PDT) |
John W. Eaton wrote
> On 10/14/2013 03:36 PM, PhilipNienhuis wrote:
>> Michael Goffioul wrote
>>>
> <snip>
>>> 2) "cd" without argument changes to home dir, while in Matlab it simply
>>> returns the current directory.
>>
>> Also on Linux-based Matlab? or only on Windows? (could be OS-dependent)
>> I can't test now, my ML prerelease has expired a few weeks ago.
>>
>> What does ML do on Mac OSX?
>
> I don't think the behavior is dependent on the OS. There is certainly
> no mention of that in the Matlab docs.
Hmm... there's more mention of Matlab behavior missing in their docs :-)
But I agree the on-line ML doc for "cd" is quite unambiguous.
And at least the effect of "cd" is consistent between Windows and Mac OSX.
Perhaps it can be made configurable; but I can't imagine that to be a high
priorty.
Philip
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Re: Matlab incompatibility: cd and which, Ben Abbott, 2013/10/14