Re: Saving in Octave

[Ben Abbott]

On Jan 17, 2010, at 7:59 PM, asha g wrote:

> I am saving my data in Octave and have a command 
> 
> save cabun vvvv x vv1 vvN
> 
> How do I know that the saved data is in .mat format. Can I read the data in 
> this format? I had sent it to someone to plot in Mayavi( Python) and they 
> said that what I sent them was in text format and not .mat format. I thought 
> that the default option in Octave was .mat while saving. I am using Octave 
> 3.01 with Ubuntu OS. 
> 
> Please help.
> 
> Thanks 
> 
> Asha 

Take a look at "help save"

I don't have 3.0.1 available, but ...

        save -mat-binary cabun vvvv x vv1 vvN

... should work.

Ben