On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 04:55:56PM -0400, Brian Stults wrote: > I am using a statistical package (Stata 7.0 for linux) that, among other > things, can read in raw data and create a database from it. I have an > ascii file of data, and the program reads the data just fine. The files > that I work with are quite large, though, so it is useful to gzip them > (in fact they come that way) and have the program call out to the shell > and have it zcat the data to a named pipe and then read it from the > pipe. When I do this, the program will read the data, but only the > first observation.
Chances are that the program doesn't like reading from a pipe, perhaps because it seeks back and forward in the input data. > Can anyone think of something that gzip/zcat would be doing to the > data to cause this behavior. Have you tried just catting the file to a (named) pipe and seeing if that exhibits the same behaviour? If so, it's almost certainly the problem above. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
