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- From: little@mathworks.com (John Little)
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- Subject: Re: any information on system_dependent ?
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 23:27:11 GMT
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- In article <1jmg9cINNi26@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> Andreas Helmcke,
- ah@cs.tu-berlin.de writes:
- >Hello,
- >
- >has anybody any information about the matlab funktion 'system_dependent'?
- >As far as i figured out, you can switch the history on/off using
- >system_dependent(2).
- >I think, system_dependent can do some more usefull work and I would like
- >to know about it.
- >
- >Greetings Andreas
-
-
- system_dependent is an unpublished function that we use for a variety
- of crufty things. It will most certainly change from time to time and
- possible even go away completely.
-
- For anybody curious about it, here is what it does in MATLAB 4.0 on
- SPARCstations:
-
- system_dependent(1) deals with the MATLAB-ACSL interface. ACSL is
- a simulation language that MATLAB can talk to. See ACSL.M for more
- information.
-
- system_dependent(2,0) turns off command-line editing.
- system_dependent(2,1) turns it back on.
-
- system_dependent(3) is unused.
-
- system_dependent(4,i,j) is used to program the command-line editing
- keys. See CEDIT.M for more information.
-
- system_dependent(5) enables core dumps in the event of seg faults.
- Normally MATLAB tries to catch seg faults and "continue". Our tech
- support people sometimes ask users to throw this flag in order
- to generate a core file that our engineers can use to investigate
- problems.
-
- system_dependent does different things in MATLAB 3.5 and other
- platforms.
-
- Good luck!
-
- John Little
-