Re: Hash function doesn't work

[Thomas D. Dean]

On 03/30/2017 04:07 PM, evansste wrote:
> Well I just installed Octave 4.0.3 on a different machine that is running a
> newer version of Lubuntu.  However, even with Octave 4.0.3, I get the same
> exact results.  The io package wasn't installed initially, so I installed it
> with:
>
> sudo apt-get install octave-io
>
> The installation seemed to work, and the package is shown as being installed
> in Octave when I type:
>
> pkg list
>
> However, the hash command still doesn't seem to be recognized.  I typed "pkg
> load io" and then "hash('md5','abc')" and I still get a message which says
> "error: 'hash' undefined near line 1 column 1".
>
> This is very puzzling since it seems to work well for Alan.  Any ideas as to
> why this still isn't working after the io package has been installed?
>
> Thanks again for your time.
>
>
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try

> pkg load io
> which hash

Tom Dean