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\input texinfo
@c Octave io - io package for GNU octave.
@c For manually generating the documentation use
@c LANGUAGE=en makeinfo --html --no-split io.texi
@c %*** Start of HEADER
@documentencoding UTF-8
@setfilename io.info
@settitle Octave io - io package for GNU octave
@afourpaper
@paragraphindent 0
@finalout
@c @afourwide
@c %*** End of the HEADER
@dircategory Math
@direntry
* Octave io: (io). io package for Octave
@end direntry
@include version.texi
@include macros.texi
@c -------------------------------------------------------------------------
@c @contents
@c -------------------------------------------------------------------------
@ifnottex
@node Top
@top Octave io package
Copyright © The Octave Project Developers
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice
and this permission notice are preserved on all copies.
Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual under the conditions for
verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a
permission notice identical to this one.
Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual into another language, under the
above conditions for modified versions.
@end ifnottex
@c -------------------------------------------------------------------------
@node Overview
@chapter Overview
@cindex Overview
The io package contains functions for reading and writing various type of data files.
@c -------------------------------------------------------------------------
@node Installing and loading
@chapter Installing and loading
@cindex Installing and loading
The io package must be installed and then loaded to be used.
It can be installed in @acronym{GNU} Octave directly from octave-forge,
@section Windows install
@cindex Windows install
If running in Windows, the package may already be installed, to check run:
@example
pkg list io
@end example
@section Installing
@cindex Installing
With an internet connection available, the io package can be installed from
octave-forge using the following command within @acronym{GNU} Octave:
@example
pkg install io
@end example
The latest released version of the package will be downloaded and installed.
Otherwise, if the package file has already been downloaded it can be installed
using the follwoing command in @acronym{GNU} Octave:
@example
pkg install io-@value{VERSION}.tar.gz
@end example
@section Loading
@cindex Loading
Regardless of the method of installing the package, in order to use its functions,
the package must be loaded using the pkg load command:
@example
pkg load io
@end example
The package must be loaded on each @acronym{GNU} Octave session.
@c -------------------------------------------------------------------------
@node Function Reference
@chapter Function Reference
@cindex Function Reference
@include functions.texi
@c -------------------------------------------------------------------------
@bye
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