'save_precision' doesn't work

[John W. Eaton]

On 24-Dec-2008, Sergei Steshenko wrote:

| There is no sense in having a 'save' subroutine which always truncates
| data, i.e. if it's not a bug in code (i.e. the code works as advertised),
| it's a bug in spec, i.e. the code implements wrong goals.

Complain to the MathWorks about the design decision.  Since the -ascii
option to save is clearly documented as saving 8 digits, I think we
would also see complaints if we did something different here.

| I think that 'save_precision' should simply affect all 'save' operations.

I think save_precision should maybe be removed from Octave.

jwe