From maintainers-request at octave dot org Fri Apr 29 01:14:16 2005
Subject: Re: save options handling
From: Daniel J Sebald <daniel dot sebald at ieee dot org>
To: "Dmitri A. Sergatskov" <dasergatskov at gmail dot com>
Cc: octave maintainers mailing list <maintainers at octave dot org>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 01:16:40 -0500

Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:
> I think it is a bug, but may be I misunderstood the logic:
> 
> default_save_options = -binary -zip
> crash_dumps_octave_core = 0
> octave:1> x=1;
> octave:2> save -text x.txt x
> octave:3> quit
> [dima at localhost octave]$ file x.txt
> x.txt: gzip compressed data, from Unix
> 
> Should not that be ASCII text?

As you suggest above, it is how you interpret the logic I guess.  If you were to 
unzip x.txt, you may find it is text.  That is, text/binary are two 
complementary options.  -zip is an additional, independent option.  You may be 
thinking that -text at the command line should override all default settings.

Dan