From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Fri Sep 25 16:22:12 1998
Subject: Re: Request for magic numbers
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian dot org>,         Francesco Potorti` <F.Potorti@cnuce.cnr.it>
Cc: Octave bugs list <bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 16:21:52 -0500 (CDT)

On 18-Aug-1998, I wrote:

| Francesco already suggested the following format, which I also like,
| though it may be better to choose a different time format.
| 
|   # Created by Octave 2.0.14, Tue Aug 18 09:48:35 1998 (pot at fly dot cnuce dot cnr dot it)
| 
| If we really want to go nuts, we could use something like this
| 
|   ## Octave-2.0.14 ASCII-1.0
|   ## Creator: Octave 2.0.14
|   ## For: Francesco Potorti` <F dot Potorti at cnuce dot cnr dot it>
|   ## Title: foo.dat
|   ## Creation-Date: Tue Aug 18 19:15:38 CDT 1998
|   ## End-Comments
|   ## Begin-Data
| 
|   ...
| 
|   ## End-Data
|   ## EOF
| 
| (any PostScript fans out there?) but perhaps that's a bit much...

I opted for a variation on the simpler format (see the load-save.cc
patch I just posted).

Thanks,

jwe