On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:06 PM, Dima Pasechnik <[email protected]> wrote:

> William,
> Matlab has a bug tracker that requires a free registration.
> http://www.mathworks.com/support/faq/bugreportsfaq.html
>
> E.g. there are currently over 40 MATLAB bugs listed for Maths and
> Programming (there are more categories). Here is a typical example:
>
> 671764<http://www.mathworks.com/support/bugreports/search_results?search_executed=1&keyword=&release_filter=Exists+in&release=186&selected_products=103&category_filter%5B%5D=3&category_filter%5B%5D=4&commit=Search#>
>  Summary
>
> The fopen function does not properly resolve a relative path containing "
> ..".
>
>  Description
>
> The fopen function does not properly resolve a relative path containing "
> ..".
>
> For example, the following command should return a handle to a file
> text.txt in the parent folder. Instead, it returns text.txt in the current
> folder:
>
>
>    f = fopen('.\..\text.txt', 'r');
>
>  Exists in
>  Product Name Release(Version) MATLAB R2011a (7.12) R2010bSP1 (7.11.1) R2010b
> (7.11)
>
>
>
> On the other hand even GAP, while being a GPL system, does not have an open
> bug tracking system, resulting in people reporting the same bugs over and
> over again :-(
>
>
Thanks!  Your email was very helpful.

By the way, I just checked on the downloads that UW provides of the latest
versions of the Ma's (for Linux).  They are *big*.

 (1) Maple.... 2.5GB
 (2) Mathematica ..... 1.2GB
 (3) Matlab.... 5.2GB

For comparison, Sage for this computer is 456MB.

 -- William

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