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In article <1jmg9cINNi26@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> Andreas Helmcke,
ah@cs.tu-berlin.de writes:
>Hello,
>
>has anybody any information about the matlab funktion 'system_dependent'?
>As far as i figured out, you can switch the history on/off using 
>system_dependent(2).
>I think, system_dependent can do some more usefull work and I would like
>to know about it.
>
>Greetings Andreas


system_dependent is an unpublished function that we use for a variety
of crufty things.  It will most certainly change from time to time and
possible even go away completely.

For anybody curious about it, here is what it does in MATLAB 4.0 on
SPARCstations:

system_dependent(1) deals with the MATLAB-ACSL interface.  ACSL is
a simulation language that MATLAB can talk to.  See ACSL.M for more
information.

system_dependent(2,0) turns off command-line editing.
system_dependent(2,1) turns it back on.

system_dependent(3) is unused.

system_dependent(4,i,j) is used to program the command-line editing
                        keys.  See CEDIT.M for more information.

system_dependent(5) enables core dumps in the event of seg faults.
Normally MATLAB tries to catch seg faults and "continue".  Our tech
support people sometimes ask users to throw this flag in order
to generate a core file that our engineers can use to investigate
problems.

system_dependent does different things in MATLAB 3.5 and other
platforms.

Good luck!

John Little