On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 05:58:49PM +0100, John Darrington wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 05:50:33PM +0100, F. Thomas wrote: > > The only (minor) surprise: During a first run I copy-pasted a > file name ending with a sav format as outfile name in the Save > Translate command. > It worked and produced, as I had demanded, an outfile named as a > sav file, but in fact it is a csv file when you open it. > > The file format is determined by the argument to the /TYPE subcommand. > The name of the file is something quite independent. > > Of course, convention dictates that if you save something as a csv format, > you should normally choose a filename ending in ".csv" - but this is > merely a convention.
More often, I see CSV files saved with .txt extensions, so it's not a widely honored convention ;-) _______________________________________________ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users
