Bug in 'compass' function; Color cannot be changed

On  2-Aug-2009, Emmanuel De Paepe wrote:

| The colour property of the 'compass' function cannot be changed:
| For example:
| 
| %%%
| A = 10+8*j;
| compass(A,"r")
| %%%
| 
| generates an error instead of red arrow.
| I do not see this this error in similar functions like 'feather','quiver', etc...

I also see the same problem in feather.  I checked in the following
change.

  http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/69a57c59868c

Thanks,

jwe