Reading files faster now

[Tom Kornack]

Dear Julian and Ramil:

Many thanks for your prompt replies. As it turns out, textread was the 
culprit here. Using 'load' is _much_ faster. But load wasn't working 
for me. I found that the load command bails when it encounters a 
carriage return. I had to remove the carriage returns at the end of the 
lines to make this work. I would consider this a bug, since lots of 
folks are likely to be getting their data from Windows or Macintosh 
native data acquisition routines. I am happy to report that the octave 
load command operates faster than similar built-in load functions in 
igor.

Regards,
Tom


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