Re: PSPP Errors on Vista

[Duncan Hsu]

On 2/29/2012 3:28 AM, Harry Thijssen wrote:
> > Basically, I have trouble using PSPP on Windows Vista - version v0.7.2 seems to 
> > be fine. But v0.7.8 and v0.7.9 seems to have problem on the GUI part.
> > I described the details at:
> > http://ittidbit.blogspot.com/2012/02/problem-pspp-on-windows-vista.html
> Describing it here would make things much easier.
>
> Anyway, did you take care that the old PSPP version are completely
> removed before installing the 0.7.9 version? Not only uninstalling,
> but check if the directories are removed, if not remove them before
> installing.
>
> Can you run you .sps file with PSPP.exe version 0.7.9 and report your
> findings? 0.7.2 and 0.7.8 are outdated there won't be any update on
> it.
I tried with 0.7.9 (2012-2-16 from http://pspp.awardspace.com/) and the 
PSPP.exe
runs just fine. The psppire.exe crash at the very beginning.
> If you use PSPPIRE, start it from a console with ' "c:\program
> files\pspp\bin\psppire.exe">  pspplog.txt ' After it is crashed look
> in pspplog.txt if there is a message what the problem is.
>
> Have fun
Forgot about this one. I will do it tonight and report back - sorry.