Save saves data to files mat by default not true in octave 4 files have no extension uisave includes user interface.
Save mat file octave.
Hgsave saves figures to files fig by default.
14 1 3 simple file i o.
Default this proprietary text format is not and never has been compatible with any of the publicly documented mat binary file formats.
The save and load commands allow data to be written to and read from disk files in various formats.
Name of file specified as a character vector or string scalar.
Diary filename saves all the text input in the command window to a text file.
The default format of files written by the save command can be controlled using the functions save default options and save precision.
If you do not specify filename the save function saves to a file named matlab mat.
Save the data in octave s text data format.
The special filename may be used to return the content of the variables as a string if no variable names are listed octave saves all the variables in the current scope.
On platforms other than windows the file extension does not necessarily relate to the data format.
Save v1 v2.
Octave s default so called mat file format is not a binary mat file at all it is in fact a text file format that octave developed for itself.
The files are saved in your current directory as seen on the top of the window.
Save options file v1 v2.
Better if i can save a mat file in octave.
This is explained in the octave documentation.
S save v1 v2 save the named variables v1 v2 in the file file.
Anyway if what you want is to save data in the matlab binary format have a look at the mat binary option for the save command.