User guide

22-15
memory.seekrandreadrcanbeusedtojumptoparticularrowsandtoreadthem
intomemory.Thisisusefulwhenonlyasubsetofrowsisneededatanytime.Thispro-
cedurewillsavememoryandbemuchfasterthanload'ingtheentirematrixintomem-
ory.
22.5 File Formats
ThissectiondiscussestheGAUSSbinaryfileformats.
Therearefourcurrentlysupportedmatrixfileformats:
Version Extension Support
Small Matrix v89
.fmt
Obsolete,usev96.
Extended Matrix v89
.fmt
Obsolete,usev96.
Matrix v92
.fmt
Obsolete,usev96.
Universal Matrix v96
.fmt
Supportedforread/write.
Therearefourcurrentlysupportedstringfileformats:
Version Extension Support
Small String v89
.fst
Obsolete,usev96.
Extended String v89
.fst
Obsolete,usev96.
String v92
.fst
Obsolete,usev96.
Universal String v96
.fst
Supportedforread/write.
Therearefourcurrentlysupporteddatasetformats:
File I/O