saving the rng state

[Jochen Martin Eppler <eppler@........................>]

Hi all!

The documentation on reading and writing random number generator state
http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/manual/html_node/Reading-and-writing-random-number-generator-state.html
says in the first line that the state can be written, both as binary
data or formatted text. The documentation of the functions there,
however only explain this for the binary case. Is the documentation
wrong or is there a thing I missed? If the latter is the case, can
you please point me to some example code for writing the state as
(presumably portable) formatted text?

Thanks very much!

Greetings,
Jochen!