[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #44642] [OF] io package: problem with xlsread ('fullname')

[Philip Nienhuis]

Update of bug #44642 (project octave):

                  Status:                    None => Fixed                  
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 

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Follow-up Comment #2:

Fixed in this changesets:
http://hg.code.sf.net/p/octave/io/rev/9615795b89aa
http://hg.code.sf.net/p/octave/io/rev/a920f7408781

make_absolute_filename() is required, otherwise things could get mixed up when
Octave changes directory while a file is open; not so much in Excel/Java etc
but rather in io's own file name logic.

AFAIR the intent of the code must have been to work with files on different
drive letters when Octave was started from a cmd32 window (in which case the
current dir on another drive letter isn't guaranteed to be the root dir).
But (1) it has never worked reliably and (2) Octave has a GUI or is started
from a desktop shortcut.
So I figured just simplifying the code would be OK.


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