Re: Error when using aload

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 07:27:36AM -0700, Jean-Michel besnard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to load a dummy ASCII text file using aload.
> Here is the output I am getting:
> 
> --START-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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> octave:1> aload("/tmp/foo")
> error: load: failed to load matrix constant
> error: load: reading file /tmp/oct-COqQd8
> error: called from `aload' in file 
> `/usr/share/octave/site/m/octave-ci/filefun/aload.m'
> 
> --STOP------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I have tried the same on another machine running octave 2.0.17 and get the 
> same
> error.

Did you look at the file?  Is it in the required format?

Try creating a simple matrix inside Octave, write it with asave and the try
aload. 

Dirk

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