content of binary files stored by save

[David Bateman]

Levente Torok wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Does anybody know if file content can be listed?
> I mean, once I saved a file with "save" command, 
> I want to know what variables are stored in it.
> For example:
>
> a=2;
> b=4;
> save -binary context.dat
>
> restarting octave
>
> load context.dat
>
>
> I am particularily interested of this because loading from binary format is extremely
> much faster so it is perfereble to use it.
> However in a case of mine it is a bit larger. Which is either an error or I saved something that I didn't want to save.
>
> Lev
>
>   

If its large does the "-z" flag to save help?

As for listing the contents, matlab has the "whos -file <file.mat>" 
command that Octave does yet implement. I took a look at adding this a 
few months ago, but if I remember correctly it wasn't clear how to do it 
cleanly. Till then Octave implements "load -list <file.mat>" which is 
similar that lists the contents without loading the variables, but 
doesn't give any details like "whos -file <file.mat>" does..

Regards
David



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