From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Tue Oct 17 04:06:36 1995
Subject: Suggestion: auto file extension
From: Eyal Doron <doron at mickey dot mpi-hd dot mpg dot de>
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu (Octave mailing list)
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 10:00:57 +0100 (MET)

Hi,

  In MATLAB, if you save a binary file, it automatically is given the
extension .mat, and likewise the extension is appended before a load. 
In Octave, no file extension is assumed. I think it would be convenient,
and also more Matlab compatible, to have this possibility in Octave as
well. It could pertain to mat-binary files only, or maybe to other
formats as well (with different extensions). It should moreover be
optional, because I'm sure some people in the Unix world won't like it...

Comments?

Eyal Doron