Re: octave core file

[John W. Eaton]

On 18-Oct-2005, roberto wrote:

| On 10/18/05, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
| > Yes.  Please tell us exactly what the problem is when you try to do
| > this.
| when i use "kwrite" editor i get only this line:
| Octave-1-L

OK, then this is a binary file.  It looks like there is a bug that
prevents Octave from saving files in the ascii format.  Please try the
following patch.

Thanks,

jwe


src/ChangeLog:

2005-10-18  John W. Eaton  <address@hidden>

        * load-save.cc (get_save_format): Also handle "ascii" and "text".


Index: src/load-save.cc
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/octave/src/load-save.cc,v
retrieving revision 1.191.2.7
diff -u -r1.191.2.7 load-save.cc
--- src/load-save.cc    23 May 2005 23:46:10 -0000      1.191.2.7
+++ src/load-save.cc    18 Oct 2005 17:29:17 -0000
@@ -989,7 +989,9 @@
 {
   load_save_format retval = fallback_format;
 
-  if (fmt == "binary")
+  if (fmt == "ascii" || fmt == "text")
+    retval = LS_ASCII;
+  else if (fmt == "binary")
     retval = LS_BINARY;
   else if (fmt == "mat-binary" || fmt =="mat_binary")
     retval = LS_MAT5_BINARY;



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