## Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 John W. Eaton
##
## This file is part of Octave.
##
## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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## any later version.
##
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## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
## General Public License for more details.
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} perror (@var{name}, @var{num})
## Print the error message for function @var{name} corresponding to the
## error number @var{num}.  This function is intended to be used to print
## useful error messages for those functions that return numeric error
## codes.
## @end deftypefn

## See also: strerror

## Author: jwe

function perror (name, err)

  if (nargin != 2)
    usage ("perror (name, err)");
  else
    printf (strerror (name, err));
  endif

endfunction