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+## Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2005,
+##               2006, 2007 John W. Eaton
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
+## Octave 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 3 of the License, or (at
+## your option) any later version.
+##
+## Octave 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 Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, see
+## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {[@var{x}, @var{map}] =} loadimage (@var{file})
+## Load an image file and it's associated color map from the specified
+## @var{file}.  The image must be stored in Octave's image format.
+## @seealso{saveimage, load, save}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Author: Tony Richardson <arichard@stark.cc.oh.us>
+## Created: July 1994
+## Adapted-By: jwe
+
+function [img_retval, map_retval] = loadimage (varargin)
+
+  persistent warned = false;
+  if (! warned)
+    warned = true;
+    warning ("Octave:deprecated-function",
+             "loadimage is obsolete and will be removed from a future version of Octave; please use imread instead");
+  endif
+
+  [img_retval, map_retval] = imread (varargin{:});
+
+endfunction