Can wfdb Matlab commands differ in Linux and OS X?

Question

There is a common misunderstanding about restoring wfdb in Matlab in different systems (mainly OS X), a bug since June/2015 - ticket #106 . Observation is that if the wfdb system breaks (etc just initiate function with wrong parameters), you cannot use the folder again where the system was initiated. I am thinking if the initiating commands of the system can be the source of the problem. Commands

[old_path]=which('rdsamp');if(~isempty(old_path)) rmpath(old_path(1:end-8)); end
wfdb_url='https://github.com/ikarosilva/wfdb-app-toolbox/raw/master/wfdb-app-toolbox-0-9-10.zip';
[filestr,status] = urlwrite(wfdb_url,'wfdb-app-toolbox-0-9-10.zip');%Octave users may have to download manually
unzip('wfdb-app-toolbox-0-9-10.zip');
cd mcode
addpath(pwd);savepath

These commands seem to be ok. However, I am not sure how OS X interact with them. I am discussing the issue also in Github here about How to Delete wfdb Completely in a Directory? and here about How to Restore wfdb Without Changing Directory in OS X?

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How can the wfdb initiating commands differ between Linux and OS X?

Answer 1

Yes. There are known bugs in the OS X package which do not have high priority for fixes. Use the package instead in Linux Debian.