Re: inadequate/inconsisten 'help pkg' message; problems with downloading

[Sergei Steshenko]

Reading screen output of 'help pkg' I've noticed this:

"
    `list'
          Show a list of the currently installed packages.  By
          requesting one or two output argument it is possible to get a
          list of the currently installed packages.  For example,

               installed_packages = pkg list;
".

The proposed code snippet, i.e. "installed_packages = pkg list;" does _not_
work:

"
octave:5> installed_packages = pkg list;
parse error:

  syntax error

>>> installed_packages = pkg list;
                                ^

octave:5>
".

The following works:

"
octave:5> installed_packages = pkg("list");
octave:6> numel(installed_packages)
ans =  68
octave:7>  
".

I don't know whether the above problem is the documentation or the 
interpreter problem - it happens, I remind, in octave-3.4.2.

...

Looks like the interpreter problem - in octave-3.0.5:

"GNU Octave, version 3.0.5
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octave:1> installed_packages = pkg list;
octave:2> numel(installed_packages)
ans = 0
octave:3> installed_packages = pkg list
installed_packages = {}(1x0)
octave:4>
".


Regards,
  Sergei.