On Tue, 10 Nov 2015, oleg_komashko@ukr.net wrote:

>> Do you mean, rename it as golf.txt? exactly > So far as gretl is concerned, ".dat" is
> the suffix for JMulti data files. open http://www.jmulti.de/download/datasets/e1.dat
> works ok In   http://www.principlesofeconometrics.com/poe4/data/dat/golf.dat  .dat is an idiosyncratic extension for a text data file

> If I understand it correctly, gretl tries to open golf.dat as JMulti 
> data file and fails, since it is a text file. May be, it will be useful 
> to have some text on renaming non-standard extensions before opening?

I mean, really.

It's ok to make users' lives easy, but up to a point. If someone, for some 
reason, rename a Stata file to an XLS extension, do you suppose we should 
try and correct for that?

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