From bug-request at octave dot org Wed Dec 15 09:34:41 2004
Subject: Re: Possible Error in -ascii save/restore
From: Michael Creel <michael dot creel at uab dot es>
To: bug at octave dot org
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 16:28:16 +0100

On Wednesday 15 December 2004 13:11, Hallvard dot Paulsen at wartsila dot com wrote:
> Description:
> -----------
>
>   * It looks to me like there is a problem when saving/loading variables to
> file in -ascii mode
>
> Repeat-By:
> ---------
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> octave:1> Vector=[1, 2, 3]
> Vector =
>
>   1  2  3
>
> octave:2> save -ascii vector.dat Vector
> octave:3> load -ascii vector.dat Vector
> error: load: failed to extract number of rows and columns
> error: load: trouble reading ascii file `vector.dat'
> error: load: reading file vector.dat
> octave:3> save -binary vector.dat Vector
> octave:4> load -binary -force vector.dat Vector
> octave:5> Vector
> Vector =
>
>   1  2  3
>
> octave:6>
>
> Fix:
> ---
>
> Well, I'm a newbee with octave, so I guess I cannot contribute much here.
> It looks like binary save works, so I'll use that for the time being. It
> may also be a cygwin specific bug.
>

This works fine with 2.1.60 on Debian Linux. 



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