Question: intent of "set datafile binary"?

[Ethan A M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

So far as I can tell, the command
    set datafile binary
does not accomplish anything at all.

I had assumed it was intended to make subsequent input default
to binary, but perhaps not.

That is, I expected the two following sequences would produce
the same result.  But they don't.  The second sequence tries
to read the input as ascii.

# All in-line
plot 'foo' binary with image

# Set defaults
set datafile binary
plot 'foo' with image


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Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742