[Gretl-devel] mwrite strangeness

[Sven Schreiber]

Well you're right, although it takes some effort to see the extension in some secret hiding place.

It seems that MSAccess has to do with it, which is installed on this computer and somehow views the file as its own. (No, I didn't install it!)

sorry,
sven



-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:24:08 -0400 (EDT)
> Von: Allin Cottrell <cottrell at wfu.edu>
> An: Gretl development <gretl-devel at lists.wfu.edu>
> Betreff: Re: [Gretl-devel] mwrite strangeness

> On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Sven Schreiber wrote:
> 
> > well sorry, here comes another:
> > 
> > ? mwrite(results800er,"results800er.mat")
> > 
> > produces a file w/o extension ("results800er"), but 
> > 
> > ? mwrite(results800er,"results800er.huhu")
> > 
> > preserves the entire string, as I intended. At first I thought 
> > it was because windows might not show known file extensions, but 
> > I always have that option off and I just checked it's still off. 
> > So somehow gretl seems to eat the ".mat" part.
> 
> I don't believe it!  For all your efforts, I still think Windows 
> is not showing you the true name of the file.
> 
> Allin.
> 
> 
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