Re: save function

[John W. Eaton]

On  6-Mar-2005, Mike Miller <address@hidden> wrote:

| On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Paul Kienzle wrote:
| 
| > Try dlmwrite from octave-forge.  Use a delimiter of ' ' because the 
| > default is ','.
| 
| As long as you do it that way, you will be hearing complaints.
| 
| We aspire to make Octave compatible with MATLAB, but MATLAB does not add 
| header lines to its save -ascii output.

Changing this is likely to cause some trouble because people are
expecting Octave's "save -ascii" to write out multiple variables with
header information that allows it to be reloaded.

If you'd like to change this, then what do you think is the best path
forward?

jwe




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