## Copyright (C) 2008 David Bateman
##
## This file is part of Octave.
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Mapping Function} {} spmax (@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{dim})
## @deftypefnx {Mapping Function} {[@var{w}, @var{iw}] =} spmax (@var{x})
## This function has been deprecated.  Use @code{max} instead.
## @end deftypefn

function varargout = spmax (varargin)
  persistent warned = false;
  if (! warned)
    warned = true;
    warning ("Octave:deprecated-function",
	     ["spmax is obsolete and will be removed from a future\n",
	      "version of Octave, please use max instead"]);
  endif

  varargout = cell (nargout, 1);
  [ varargout{:} ] = max (varargin{:});

endfunction