Re: Re Re: PSPP help (Alan Mead)

2016-02-23 Thread Harry Thijssen
Alan The MSWindows build off the PSPP GUI takes the current dir as the home directory. These are libraries and I can't change that behaviour. However in the build I am uploading to sourceforge right now, the shortcuts start from the home directory. This way the MSWindows GUI will work more as exp

Re: PSPP help

2016-02-23 Thread Alan Mead
On 2/23/2016 1:49 PM, Harry Thijssen wrote: > It is non-ascii characters in the filename or the path. Anyway, this > shouldn't happen any more in the latest version when you save it from > the GUI. So I don't think this is the problem. Except that she uninstalled the latest version because it had

Re: Re: PSPP help

2016-02-23 Thread Harry Thijssen
> > > I try to save the data file under 'PSPP' it comes up with an error > > message saying 'permission denied' > > that sounds like you are trying to save the files under c:\program > files\pspp and that isn't a good place to save files and Windows will > prevent you from doing so unless you are a

Re: PSPP help

2016-02-23 Thread Claire de Koker
OK thanks - apologies didn't see the additional email addresses. I'll retry the latest version and see how it goes. Claire On 23 February 2016 at 17:49, Alan Mead wrote: > Claire, > > You should reply to the list so that you avail yourself of the list's > collective wisdom. > > I would go ahead

Re: PSPP help

2016-02-23 Thread Alan Mead
Claire, You should reply to the list so that you avail yourself of the list's collective wisdom. I would go ahead and use the latest version even though it has this scary message. IIRC, the reason that the scary message is not shown in the November 2015 version is just that they added it since th

Re: PSPP help

2016-02-23 Thread Alan Mead
Claire, When you when say: > I try to save the data file under 'PSPP' it comes up with an error > message saying 'permission denied' that sounds like you are trying to save the files under c:\program files\pspp and that isn't a good place to save files and Windows will prevent you from doing so

PSPP help

2016-02-23 Thread Claire de Koker
Hi there I am struggling to start using PSPP and had a couple of questions which the manual and the FAQ online have not been able to answer. I initially downloaded the latest version (I think from 29-01-2016) and subsequently uninstalled and then installed an earlier version, from Nov 2015 (0.85)