- finished abs path fixes for exist calls
  - still need to look over isdir/fopen/load calls
- added many isstring calls
  - still need to look over many more
- abs path fixes for isdir calls
- also reduced filesep/fullfile calls
- fixed a unix path assumption bug in onefilelist
- many edits to improve octave compatibility
- many functions are still not working with
  octave 3.6.4 so there is much to be done
  particularly when dealing with plotting