Re: save function

[John W. Eaton]

On  8-Mar-2005, Robert A. Macy <address@hidden> wrote:

| My two cents...
| 
| Leave alone save function
| 
| I have not experienced any problems with it.  If I don't
| want the header, I throw it away.  

I think that's a good solution, but apparently some people want
bug-for-bug(*) compatibility.

In any case, I would not do away with Octave's save format.  The
question is whether it is worth making the backwardly incompatible
(for Octave) but compatible (with Matlab) change so that -ascii works
as it does in Matlab.  We would move the current -ascii behavior to a
different option, perhaps -oct-ascii or -text or something.

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  * Though I suppose one person's bug is another's prized feature...



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