Re: PSPP Environmental variables

[James]

John,

I am more than happy to recompile pspp to get this working, but what would need 
to be changed?  As I mentioned previously, I had set the TMPDIR environmental 
variable before compilation/installation, but pspp didn't seem to pick it up  
If I need to edit a file to remove the "tmpfile()" command as well, I would 
probably need help locating it.

As for WORKSPACE, according to the documentation online, it is an accepted 
variable, but it is ignored when the program is run.  

http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/manual/pspp.html#SET


     (obsolete settings accepted for compatibility, but ignored)
             /BOXSTRING={'xxx','xxxxxxxxxxx'}
 **LIST EDITED FOR BREVITY **
             /WORKSPACE=workspace_size

Thank you again for the quick reply,

James Smith


----Original Message-----
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[mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of John
Darrington
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 10:41 AM
To: James
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Subject: Re: PSPP Environmental variables

A number of people seem to have been asking this question recently.

The short answer is that it's currently not possible without recompiling
pspp.  A Bug has been filed and will hopefully be fixed soon.  You can
follow the progress at http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?30530

Note also that when processing very large datasets, it will probably be
worthwhile setting the WORKSPACE parameter (see the manual for details) to
some large figure.
This may even avoid the need for temporary files to be created in some
instances.

J'