10.15    Dumping a Matrix to an ASCII .DAT (Text) File

This option writes the cell values of the internal matrix into a user-specified ASCII (text) file.  It is used typically to “transfer” matrix data between suites or from SATURN into, say, a spreadsheet such as EXCEL.

The output ASCII file may be either defined interactively by the user or else set as a command line parameter (see 10.1.2) using the keyword KP as in:

MX matrix KP tijdata.txt

Note that the KP option may be usefully used to set the filename when a matrix is “dumped” using a KEY (or KEY + VDU) file to generate the necessary commands as in:

MX matrix2 KP tij2data.txt KEYVDU dump