From sgougeon at free.fr  Wed Oct 30 18:17:42 2019
From: sgougeon at free.fr (Samuel Gougeon)
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:17:42 +0100
Subject: [Scilab-Dev] WSCI not defined in OS environment
Message-ID: <155ab419-552f-5c2c-d3be-ca172d5e0d2c@free.fr>

Hello,

I am wondering why, unlike SCI, SCIHOME, TMPDIR and home, WSCI is not 
defined in the calling OS environment:

--> getenv WSCI

getenv: Undefined environment variable WSCI.

--> getenv SCI
 ?ans? =
 ?C:/Applications/scilab/SCILAB~2.2


--> getenv SCIHOME
 ?ans? =
 ?C:\Users\I\AppData\Roaming\Scilab\SCILAB~2.2


--> getenv TMPDIR
 ?ans? =
 ?C:\Users\I\AppData\Local\Temp\SC6FE7~1


--> getenv home
 ?ans? =
 ?C:\Users\I

Hence, %TMPDIR%, .. %SCIHOME% can be used in commands sent to the OS 
through unix_*() or host() functions
(or $TMPDIR, .. $SCIHOME on Linux and MacOS), but not %WSCI% or $WSCI.
This looks a bit awkward, doesn't it?
WSCI could be defined as well on Linux and MacOS as a copy of SCI. It 
would not disturb.

Regards
Samuel


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From sgougeon at free.fr  Thu Oct 31 22:48:59 2019
From: sgougeon at free.fr (Samuel Gougeon)
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 22:48:59 +0100
Subject: [Scilab-Dev] sciargs() now returns a column. Intentional change?
Message-ID: <3d7c3225-3bb8-fff7-db61-76d090a68f44@free.fr>

Hello,


Since Scilab 6.0.0, sciargs() now returns a column vector, instead of a 
row (as still documented).

Is this change intentional?


Regards

Samuel