## Copyright (C) 1996 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 2, 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, write to the Free
## Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA
## 02111-1307, USA.

## This is an internal function used by dump_prefs().

## Author: jwe

function dump_1_pref (file, var)

  if (nargin != 2)
    usage ("dump_1_pref (file, var)");
  endif

  eval (sprintf ("tmp = %s;", var));

  if (isstr (tmp))
    fprintf (file, "  %s = \"%s\"\n", var, undo_string_escapes (tmp));
  elseif (is_scalar (tmp))
    fprintf (file, "  %s = %g\n", var, tmp);
  else
    fprintf (file, "  %s = \"wrong type arg\"\n", var);
  endif

endfunction
