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? Oleh