save -ascii no longer stores information on saved variables

[Ben Abbott]

On Aug 12, 2008, at 5:45 AM, Zdenek Wagner wrote:

> To: bug at octave.org
> Cc: zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
> Subject: save -ascii no longer stores information on saved variables
>
> Bug report for Octave 3.0.1 configured for i386-redhat-linux-gnu
>
> Description:
> -----------
>
> Previous versions of Octave stored information on saved variables so  
> that files
> produced by "save -ascii" were self-contained and could be easily  
> read by
> a single load. This information is now missing. If the file contains  
> a mixture
> of scalars, vectors and matrices of different sizes, load fails.

I suspect that Matlab compatibility has resulted in this feature being  
modified.

Does "save -text" do what you want?

Ben