I have a long script to work with data. I was wondering if there's a simple way of adding a few lines of code to save the session. It is easy to save as .gdt but I cannot find a way of doing it as .gretl. It would be something similar to:
<hansl>
store " /home/user/docs/myfile.gdt"
</hansl>
The idea is to keep not only the dataset but also the work done on it. That's why I was looking for .gretl instead.
It's a legitimate question that has been asked before. I cannot search in the archives right now but the short story is: Gretl's design is to either use a scripting approach, and then the script file(s) together with the dataset (or perhaps databases, in the gretl sense) form the storage of your work. You could zip them together of course. The gretl session files are intended for GUI-oriented work, which is why you cannot store script files in them.
For some scenarios I agree that this is not optimal, but that is the way to look at it right now.
cheers
sven