Re: [Gretl-devel] Issue with "open" command
On Sun, 6 Dec 2015, Artur Tarassow wrote:
Ok, actually it was my fault :-/ Sorry for this. The path was partly
wrong.
Nevertheless, maybe it's more informative to get a messages which tells the
user that this file does not exist instead?
It's a standard thing in gretl that if you ask to open a data file
of a specified name, and it's not found, we try adding the primary
native ".gdt" extension before giving up. This enables you to say,
for example,
open denmark
(as Hamlet might). However, maybe if the original filename contains
a "." following the last directory separator, if any (you can see
this is getting quite complex), we should amend the "can't open"
error message to refer to the original filename rather than the one
we've manufactured.
Meybe, but low priority.
Allin