labCA crashes with bad PV

[Dennis Nicklaus <nicklaus@fnal.gov>]

When I use an non-existent PV  via labCA in matlab, my matlab session dies.
e.g.
> lcaGet ('garbage')
hangs for a minute or two, then takes down matlab.
Hitting control-c during the timeout also crashes matlab.

I'm running matlab 7 under linux.  I picked up what looked like the most 
recent
labCA (2.0 alpha).

Can  labCA be made to do anything other than hang and crash, like print a
'Channel connect timed out' error?
Thanks,