Re: data set opening bug

[ftr]

On 07/02/2016 15:23, John Darrington wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 12:50:58PM +0100, ftr wrote:
>       Thank you for the clarification. It did not know these details.
>
>       When you search for PSPP for Windows the first result that pops
>       up is for  pspp.awardspace.com and is version 0.9.0-g745ee3.
>       - This is the one that took half a day to install here - .
>
>       There is a warning in the first line of the site that the version
>       0.9.0 is not fully tested, but a little later on the site states:
>       There are no known issues with this release.
>       Maybe a more cautionary phrase would help.
>
>       When you look at the sourceforge the site
>       http://sourceforge.net/projects/pspp4windows/files/latest/download
>       lets you download a snapshot version:
>       pspp-090+20160124-snapshot-64bits-setup.exe
>
>       So the alternatives are either snapshot or snapshot ?
>
> pspp.awardspace.com and sourceforge.net/pspp4windows are not controlled
> by the PSPP developers.   Those have been set up by Harry Thijssen
> (who is normally active on this list) as a service to those who find
> it useful.  (Harry, maybe you could consider ftr's suggestions?)
>
>
>       So, where do you get a real production version ?
>
> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/pspp
>
>
>
>       BTW: The snapshot version produced frequencies, but not always.
>       And when you are waiting for the result the window remains blank.
>       The user doesn't whether pspp works or crashed.
>
> The qog_std_cs_jan16.sav  dataset which you posted earlier contains only:
>
>   -   Numerical (scale) variables.
>   -   Variables which are unique for each case.
>   -   Variables which have only one value for the entire dataset.
>
> As such, I cannot see that there is any FREQUENCIES command which would
> produce interesting results.

I wanted just to see how many cases got opened after opening of the file.

However, my original question was about the error message
> attention: 'C:\Users\Toshiba\Documents\data\world\qog_std_cs_jan15.sav' près du
> segment 0x340a3 :Record type 7, subtype 18 found here has the same type as the
> record found near offset 0x3406a.  For help, please send this file to bug-gnu-
> address@hidden and mention that you were using GNU PSPP 0.9.0-g3a3d58.

Did you have the get the same error message ?

- ftr