Re: Alternative to DumpSave
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- Subject: [mg116913] Re: Alternative to DumpSave
- From: "Sjoerd C. de Vries" <sjoerd.c.devries at gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 03:39:43 -0500 (EST)
- References: <iknsch$k9h$1@smc.vnet.net>
Save instead of DumpSave should work, although perhaps somewhat slower
and less compact.
Cheers -- Sjoerd
On Mar 3, 12:00 pm, Thomas Muench <thomas.mue... at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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