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

[Sergei Steshenko]

While installing packages I've noticed a lot of warnings like this one:

warning: 
/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/integration-1.0.7/PKG_ADD:
 possible Matlab-style short-circuit operator at line 9, column 32
.

Or like this one:

warning: 
/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/secs2d-0.0.8/Utilities/Usubdomains2.m:
 possible Matlab-style short-circuit operator at line 69, column 47
.

Do these warnings indicate a real problem ? Do packages producing such
warning work or they are DOA ?

The following is a quick list of packages/files producing the second
warning:

address@hidden:~/junk> grep warning 
/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/build/octave_forge_bundle/*.install.log | grep 
'Matlab-style short-circuit operator' | grep -v PKG_ADD | cut -d: -f3 | sort | 
uniq
 
/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/data-smoothing-1.2.0/rgdtsmcore.m
 
/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/fpl-1.2.0/FPL2dxappenddata.m
 
/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/fpl-1.2.0/FPL2dxoutputdata.m
 
/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/fpl-1.2.0/FPL3dxoutputfield.m
 
/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/gpc-0.1.7/gpc_plot.m
 
/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/mapping-1.0.7/azimuth.m
 
/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/nnet-0.1.13/isposint.m
 
/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/nnet-0.1.13/newff.m
 
/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/nnet-0.1.13/__newnetwork.m
 
/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/nnet-0.1.13/newp.m
 
/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/nnet-0.1.13/__printTrainParam.m
 
/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/nnet-0.1.13/__trainlm.m
 
/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/ocs-0.1.1/sbn/Mnmosfet.m
 
/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/ocs-0.1.1/sbn/Mpmosfet.m
 
/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/ocs-0.1.1/sbn/Mshichmanhodgesmosfet.m
 
/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/oct2mat-1.0.7/striplegend.m
 
/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/odepkg-0.8.0/odebwe.m
 
/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/odepkg-0.8.0/odepkg_examples_ode.m
 
/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/outliers-0.13.9/cochrantest.m
 
/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/outliers-0.13.9/dixoninv.m
 
/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/outliers-0.13.9/dixontest.m
 
/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/outliers-0.13.9/grubbstest.m
 
/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/outliers-0.13.9/outlier.m
 
/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/outliers-0.13.9/rmoutlier.m
 
/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/outliers-0.13.9/scores.m
 
/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/secs1d-0.0.8/DDG/DDGnlpoisson.m
 
/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/secs2d-0.0.8/DDGOX/DDGOXgummelmap.m
 
/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/secs2d-0.0.8/QDDGOX/QDDGOXddcurrent.m
 
/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/secs2d-0.0.8/Utilities/UDXappend2Ddata.m
 
/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/secs2d-0.0.8/Utilities/UDXoutput2Ddata.m
 
/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/secs2d-0.0.8/Utilities/Uise2pde.m
 
/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/secs2d-0.0.8/Utilities/Usubdomains2.m
 
/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/octave-3.4.2/share/octave/packages/statistics-1.0.10/mvnrnd.m
address@hidden:~/junk>  
.

Thanks,
  Sergei.