Dear all,
Below is the script to illustrate the problem:
<hansl>
#### run in 2 chunks
open bjg.gdt
store "bjg.m" --gnu-octave
ma = mread("bjg.m")
eval ma[1:3,]
## why only g?

## this crushes gretl on my Ubuntu 17.10, 64
open bjg.m
<hansl>
Open GUI has '.m' option
Trying open bjg.m via GUI also crushes


Oleh