Robert Funnell wrote:
> Benjamin -
> 
> Thank you very much for your help and your patience. I'd seen that 
> note about segfaulting but didn't notice that it involved the Windows 
> package, or at least didn't remember it by the time I got to trying 
> the .m file that requires the Windows package.

Hmm, thinking about it, I believe it could/should possibly be more 
prominently documented. Thanks for raising the question.
I'll try and improve it

> While such a situation exists, would it be feasible to add a check for 
> packages that are installed but not loaded before giving the 
> 'undefined' message?

I don't think this can be done easily.
Octave has no notion of files-that-are-installed-but-not-usable,
it has a search path, and if a file is in the search path, it is 
available, if not, then it's not available.

Merely installing a package does not add its files to octave's search 
path, this is done by loading it.

benjamin

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