Alternative to DumpSave
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- Subject: [mg116889] Alternative to DumpSave
- From: Thomas Muench <thomas.muench at gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 05:59:35 -0500 (EST)
Dear Mathgroup,
Can anybody suggest an elegant alternative to the DumpSave[] command?
I like DumpSave because it gives a compact (=small file size)
representation of variables and their definitions. However, the format
is not portable across systems. For example, I cannot load the
DumpSave-ed data from a Win-XP system into a Win-7-64bit system.
To describe the problem more explicitely: I have created data in a
lengthy computation that is saved in a couple of variables. These
variables each have relatively complex definitions, for example many
variations of var1["descriptor"]={something}. I then save the
definitions of these variables with DumpSave like that:
DumpSave["filename.mx",{var1,var2,var3}];
In a later session, I can re-load them with Get["filename.mx"], which
works wonderfully and amazingly fast.
How can I achieve something equivalent accross systems?
This in in Mathematica 8.
Thank you!
thomas