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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {[@var{x}, @var{map}] =} loadimage (@var{file})
## Load an image file and its 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

## Deprecated in version 3.2

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             "loadimage is obsolete and will be removed from a future version of Octave; please use imread instead");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