[Kmatplot-general] ascii data format

[Kees v. W. <C.v...@st...>]

I use some visualization tools like matlab or tecplot one various sytems. 
Though on my linux PC I don't have any of these available and kmatplot might 
be a good alternative in some cases except that kmatplot uses a ascii data 
format which most of my programs (c, fortran) can not write. Most of these 
programs write data in columns where each column represents a variable.

e.g.:

x  y  u    v
1  1  3.2  1.1
1  2  3.1  4.3
1  3  1    3
2  1  3    7
2  2  7    4
2  3  5    7
3  1  4    5
3  2  3    5
3  3  2    3

Is there any option to read in ascii data this format?

Since many of my data analysis programs write data this way (optionally using 
some header information about the exact format) it would be a nice 
feature...for me.

What is the idea behind the current "#name: ...." format? Is it Octave stuff?


Kees