I agree with you, however, a few years ago when I had no more knowledge of computers, I would not have said the same.
This is not to reinvent the wheel, but to offer a method that many users already know. Such functionality in PSPP, could be available on any platform, and you have a group of users who would know how to use it and also count with SPJ files they did or their companies gave them, saying, "with that file, analyze X data with Y statistical". Everything depends on the perspective. Cheers CJT ---------------------------------------- > Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2015 10:10:43 +0100 > From: j...@darrington.wattle.id.au > To: charlesjohns...@outlook.com > CC: pspp-users@gnu.org > Subject: Production Jobs > > On Sun, Nov 08, 2015 at 01:36:01AM +0000, Charles Johnson wrote: > > From my point of view, production jobs are very useful to automate lengthy > and complex processes that are made recurrently. As PSPP add more commands, > the more useful they will be in the future. > > > How would they be more useful than any general method of automation? > > For example, if you wanted to automatically download a file from a > location on the web, and analzse that, you could write a 3 line shell > script using wget and pspp. You could even have cron run it every > day/hour/minute and upload the results somewhere. > > I'm sure it would also be possible with "production jobs", but I wonder > what the utility is, reinventing the wheel to do something which can > already be done. > > J' > > > > -- > Avoid eavesdropping. Send strong encryted email. > PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 > fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 > See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key. > _______________________________________________ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users
