Re: Saving a .mat file

[Carlo de Falco]

Please post replies __AFTER__ the quoted text as oyherwise discussions
get messed up as you can see reading this post.


On 8 Mar 2010, at 07:17, DoucheWhite wrote:

> Yea I got no problem saving a binary .dat file.

what the hell is a binary .dat file???
remember that file extensions have no connection to file contents in  
most platforms
other than windows, so talking about file extensions gives no  
information about the file format.

> But u know how that when u do
> save .mat in matlab it saves all u r variables in workspace. I can  
> create a
> .mat file under Octave but it doesn't save anything. I was wondering  
> if
> there's a command that u can save all u r variables in workspace in  
> Octave.


save ("-mat-binary", "workspace.mat")

that is all documented in the manual, type "doc save" at the octave  
prompt
or see online at http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/docs.html

c.
> Carlo de Falco-2 wrote:
> > On 3 Mar 2010, at 07:11, DoucheWhite wrote:
> >
> > > Hi
> > > Does anybody know how to save all your variables in Octave like
> > > a .mat
> > > file in matlab?
> >
> > have you tried using the same command as in matlab?
> >
> > > Better if i can save a .mat file in Octave.
> >
> > on platforms other than windows the file extension does not
> > necessarily relate to the data format.
> > anyway if what you want is to save data in the matlab binary format
> > have a look at the '-mat-binary' option for the 'save' command.
> > c.
> >
> > P.S. did you know? "Octave is fully documented by a comprehensive 575
> > page manual" ( http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/docs.html )
> >
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