Re: save function

[Hamish Allan]

On Mar 9, 2005, at 18:28, John W. Eaton wrote:
> If we are going to provide compatible behavior, I think it should use
> the same option name as is used by Matlab.  Otherwise, we will
> continue to see questions about why -ascii doesn't do the expected
> thing.

I'm not entirely convinced that anyone is actually asking for 
Matlab-compatible behaviour. All we want is an efficient way to output 
a matrix of numbers to a file (just as it is possible to load such a 
matrix from a file with no header information without using fscanf). I 
suggest we *don't* aim for compatible behaviour with the braindead 
Matlab, and instead we have an -ascii-noheader option like Mike 
proposes.

Hamish



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