Re: Zipped octave file formats and octave core and default file formats

[Quentin Spencer]

Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:

> David Bateman wrote:
> ...
>
> > 3) Change the meaning and probably the name of 
> > octave_core_file_format and default_save_format so that they are the 
> > options to use to save rather than a file format. That is "binary" 
> > becomes "-binary" and zipped files might be defined like "-binary -z" 
> > in the core and default file options variable (whatever they are called)
>
> Yes.
>
> Since those variables normally used in things like startup files,
> I would expect the incompatibility impact would be minimal.

I agree with this as well. I suspect that any user who knows enough to 
have set these variables to something (likely in .octaverc as Dmitri 
suggests) won't be too inconvenienced by making minor updates, and the 
changes will be more or less transparent to every one else.