You hit the nail on the head, Robert. I shortened the file to about six
lines.
It has a CR at the end. It read in with no problem
(%i3) a: read_list("d:/tjw/max/testdata1.txt");
(%o3)
[33,33,33,2,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,
0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,
0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0]
The original file is about 3.12MB, about 208,000 floating point numbers
of zero. I tried it
again. About an hour later, wxmaxima still says "Maxima is calculating"
consuming 99%
of the CPU. This is probably not what he intended to send to me.
Later I will try the short file with no CRs. I don't expect a problem.
Thanks
Robert Dodier wrote:
> On 5/21/07, Thomas Widlar <twidlar at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Experimenting with read_list I did on WinXP using wxmaxima (5.12)
>>
>> (%i5) a : read_list("d:/tjw/max/testdata0.txt");
>>
>> where "d:/tjw/max/testdata0.txt" is a large file of numbers
>> separated by
>> blanks and some LFs (no CR);
>>
>> I get no response.
>
>
> What happens if you copy just the first few lines and try to load that?
> How large is the file? Maybe you just need to wait. Just an idea.
>
> If you can't make any progress, email the original file to me and I
> will take a look at it.