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+## Copyright (C) 2004 David Bateman & Andy Adler
+##
+## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+## (at your option) any later version.
+##
+## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+## but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+## GNU General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+## Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{y} =} spvcat (@var{a1}, @var{a2}, @dots{}, @var{aN})
+## Return the vertical concatenation of sparse matrices. This function
+## is obselete and @code{vertcat} should be used
+## @end deftypefn
+## @seealso {sphcat, vertcat, horzcat, cat}
+
+function y = spvcat (varargin)
+
+  persistent spvcat_warned = false;
+
+  if (!spvcat_warned)
+    spvcat_warned = true;
+    warning ("spvcat: This function is depreciated. Use vertcat instead");
+  endif
+
+  y = vertcat (varargin{:});
+endfunction