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- ## Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 John W. Eaton
- ##
- ## This file is part of Octave.
- ##
- ## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
- ## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
- ## any later version.
- ##
- ## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
- ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
- ## General Public License for more details.
- ##
- ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- ## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free
- ## Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA
- ## 02111-1307, USA.
-
- ## -*- texinfo -*-
- ## @deftypefn {Function File} {} perror (@var{name}, @var{num})
- ## Print the error message for function @var{name} corresponding to the
- ## error number @var{num}. This function is intended to be used to print
- ## useful error messages for those functions that return numeric error
- ## codes.
- ## @end deftypefn
-
- ## See also: strerror
-
- ## Author: jwe
-
- function perror (name, err)
-
- if (nargin != 2)
- usage ("perror (name, err)");
- else
- printf (strerror (name, err));
- endif
-
- endfunction
-