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  • Committer: Bazaar Package Importer
  • Author(s): Torsten Werner
  • Date: 2005-01-09 22:58:21 UTC
  • mfrom: (1.1.1 upstream)
  • Revision ID: james.westby@ubuntu.com-20050109225821-473xr8vhgugxxx5j
Tags: 3.0-12
http://bugs.debian.org/255869
changed configure.in to build scilab's own malloc.o, closes: #255869

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
 
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<!DOCTYPE MAN SYSTEM "../../manrev.dtd">
 
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<MAN>
 
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  <LANGUAGE>eng</LANGUAGE>
 
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  <TITLE>dirname</TITLE>
 
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  <TYPE>Scilab Function</TYPE>
 
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  <DATE>April 1993</DATE>
 
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  <SHORT_DESCRIPTION name="dirname"> get directory from filenames</SHORT_DESCRIPTION>
 
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  <CALLING_SEQUENCE>
 
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    <CALLING_SEQUENCE_ITEM>dirs= dirname(files[,flag [,flagexpand]])  </CALLING_SEQUENCE_ITEM>
 
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  </CALLING_SEQUENCE>
 
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  <PARAM>
 
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    <PARAM_INDENT>
 
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      <PARAM_ITEM>
 
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        <PARAM_NAME>files</PARAM_NAME>
 
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        <PARAM_DESCRIPTION>
 
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          <SP>: a string matrix giving a set of file names.</SP>
 
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        </PARAM_DESCRIPTION>
 
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      </PARAM_ITEM>
 
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      <PARAM_ITEM>
 
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        <PARAM_NAME>flag,flagexpand</PARAM_NAME>
 
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        <PARAM_DESCRIPTION>
 
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          <SP>: boolean optional parameters. (default value <VERB>%t</VERB>).</SP>
 
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        </PARAM_DESCRIPTION>
 
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      </PARAM_ITEM>
 
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      <PARAM_ITEM>
 
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        <PARAM_NAME>files,dir</PARAM_NAME>
 
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        <PARAM_DESCRIPTION>
 
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          <SP>: string matrices.</SP>
 
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        </PARAM_DESCRIPTION>
 
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      </PARAM_ITEM>
 
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    </PARAM_INDENT>
 
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  </PARAM>
 
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  <DESCRIPTION>
 
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    <P><VERB>dirname</VERB> return the dirname of the file entries given in files.</P>
 
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    <P>
 
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    If <VERB>flag</VERB> is true the files are first converted to the target 
 
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    type given by the <VERB>MSDOS</VERB> variable. 
 
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    Moreover, if <VERB>flagexpand</VERB> is true leading strings like
 
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    <VERB>HOME</VERB>, <VERB>SCI</VERB> or <VERB>~</VERB> are expanded using environment
 
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    variables.</P>
 
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    <P>
 
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    Note that <VERB>dirname(files,%f)</VERB> can give erroneous results if 
 
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    pathnames given in files do not follow the convention 
 
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    given by the <VERB>MSDOS</VERB> variable.</P>
 
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  </DESCRIPTION>
 
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  <EXAMPLE>
 
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<![CDATA[
 
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files=dirname('SCI/macros/util/poo.sci')
 
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files=dirname('SCI/macros\util/poo.sci')
 
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files=dirname('SCI/macros\util/poo.sci.k')
 
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 ]]>
 
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  </EXAMPLE>
 
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  <SEE_ALSO>
 
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    <SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
 
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      <LINK>basename</LINK>
 
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    </SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
 
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    <SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
 
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      <LINK>listfiles</LINK>
 
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    </SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
 
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    <SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
 
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      <LINK>pathconvert</LINK>
 
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    </SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
 
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  </SEE_ALSO>
 
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</MAN>