[Gretl-devel] Re: using gdt extension per default fails with open
On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 8:29 AM Cottrell, Allin <cottrell(a)wfu.edu> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM Sven Schreiber
<sven.schreiber(a)fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> Am 28.08.2025 um 21:17 schrieb Cottrell, Allin:
> > On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM Sven Schreiber
> > <sven.schreiber(a)fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> >> according to the doc of the open command, I think the following should
> >> work, no? ("If no filename suffix is given (as in the first example
> >> above), gretl assumes a native datafile with suffix .gdt.")
> >> ...
> > In fact, the shortcut of "we'll assume a .gdt suffix if no suffix is
> > given" is confined to data files that are supplied with gretl. I guess
> > that should be clarified in the doc.
>
> Aha, indeed! So what makes them special is basically their path location?
I now see that my reply was incorrect, but that facility was designed
to work for supplied data files and it does have to do with path
location. Your failing "dummyfile" example works for me if the gdt
file in question is saved to my gretl "workdir", or to gretl's
"data/misc" directory, but not otherwise.
However, there's no real reason for the "if there's no suffix then
append .gdt" rule to depend on path location. So now in git it's
applied independently.
Allin