A strange load problem

[John W. Eaton]

On 17-Aug-2006, frank wang wrote:

| Hi,
| 
| While I am working on my project, I found that octave cannot load a data
| file. I, then, created a simple file containing one data 103 and I named it
| testxx.dat.
| 
| In octave, if I type: load testxx.dat and whos -v. The data had not been
| loaded. Then I type: load -text testxx.dat, I got:
| error: load: empty name keyword or no data found in file `testxx.dat`
| 
| I then tried the same thing on another machine, the load command works fine.
| 
| On both machine, Octave version is 2.9.7.  The only difference after type
| ver in octave is the Linux version.
| 
| The first machine is Linux 2.6.16.13-4-default.
| The second machine is Linux 2.6.5-7.151-smp.
| 
| Does anyone know what is wrong here?

Do you just want us to guess?

How about sending the file as a binary attachment so we can know
precisely what characters are in the file?

jwe