On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Knut Krueger wrote:
>
> I found a definition of the SPSS files.
> http://www.wotsit.org/download.asp?f=spssdata
> but they recommend to use the spss input/output dll to ensure upward
> compatbility
>
"Well, they would say that, wouldn't they" (Rice-Davis 1963)
Unfortunately,
Thomas Lumley schrieb:
> On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Knut Krueger wrote:
>
>> Thanks for your reply,
>> unfortunatlley the link is broken
>> and gnu.org is linking to the same page
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html ...
>>
>
> It works for me now (as it did then)
Mc Murpey was working ...
Thomas Lumley schrieb:
> On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Knut Krueger wrote:
>
>> I was wondering why it is possible to read long labels from the CVS
>> files but not from the SPSS files.
>
>
> The SPSS file formats are not documented, and so we rely on the code
> from PSPP.
I found a definition of the S
Thomas Lumley schrieb:
> On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Knut Krueger wrote:
>
>> I was wondering why it is possible to read long labels from the CVS
>> files but not from the SPSS files.
>
>
> The SPSS file formats are not documented, and so we rely on the code
> from PSPP. At the time, PSPP did not rea
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Knut Krueger wrote:
> I was wondering why it is possible to read long labels from the CVS
> files but not from the SPSS files.
The SPSS file formats are not documented, and so we rely on the code from
PSPP. At the time, PSPP did not read long variable names. It now does,
I was wondering why it is possible to read long labels from the CVS
files but not from the SPSS files.
I did not have much time to search for the code but I found:
in foreign_0.8-10 source file var.h.in
> /* Definition of the max length of a short string value, generally
>eight characters.
