Macros

2015-11-16 Thread Matthias Faeth
That is great news, so I changed the topic to Macros. @all: 1. How is your view on that? For recall: Frans promised to support us with macro code which could serve as "replacement" for certain CTABLES functions once PSPP would support macros. 2. How would you propose to proceed on that? Is there

Re: Macros

2015-11-16 Thread Frans Houweling
I guess Ben hasn't promised anything, but yes, that would be great news indeed! As macros do not need access to the data but merely perform text substitution on the syntax, I have been playing with (the thought of) a little standalone application that takes an SPSS syntax file with macros and o

Re: CTABLES

2015-11-16 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 05:01:43PM +, Charles Johnson wrote: > > 3. Maybe Frans idea about implementing !Macros could serve as a > > workaround. I think that might be worthwhile to discuss. Any opinions > > on that? > > From my point of view, the implementation of macro is very different

Re: finding new developers

2015-11-16 Thread Harry Thijssen
2015-11-15 5:36 GMT+01:00 Charles Johnson : > > Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 21:14:17 +0100 > From: j...@darrington.wattle.id.au > To: pspp4wind...@gmail.com > Subject: Re: RE: finding new developers > CC: pspp-users@gnu.org > > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 01:38:31

Re Re: PSPP for Windows

2015-11-16 Thread Harry Thijssen
>Having said that, we try to make it work as best we can on other systems too. >So if you can describe >exactly how to reproduce this behaviour, then we will try to improve it. > >J I discusses off list with this user. It was related to non-ascii characters in the file name. Surprisingly it saving