Re: Save produces large files

[Keith Goodman]

On 6/14/05, Søren Hauberg <address@hidden> wrote:
> I need to save some large (approx. 200x10000) matrices. Is there a
> recommended data format for this. At school I'm short on disk space
> (stupid sysadmins :-) )

The space issue is easy to deal with. Regenerate the data every night
and save it to /tmp.

You can make your own "save -z -binary"

function zsave(filename,...)
save("-binary",filename,...)
system(["gzip " filename])  % Or bzip2

Reverse the process for zload.



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