Re: save translate error message not understood

[Ben Pfaff]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 04:40:22PM +0100, John Darrington wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 06:35:37AM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>      On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 08:48:40PM +0100, John Darrington wrote:
>      > On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 08:37:20PM +0100, news wrote:
>      >      Hi,
>      >      
>      >      I want to export to a csv file and get an error message, but
>      >      don't see the error.
>      >      
>      >      Any help appreciated.
>      >      
>      >      C:\Users\Toshiba\Documents\data\EB\save translate.sps.16-22: 
> erreur: SAVE
>      >      TRANSLATE: Erreur de syntaxe dans 'OUTFILE': Fin de commande 
> attendu.
>      >      
>      >      Fin de commande attendu = end of command attended.
>      >      
>      >      SAVE TRANSLATE 
> OUTFILE="C:\Users\Toshiba\Documents\data\EB\EB794x.csv"
>      >              /TYPE=CSV
>      >              /REPLACE
>      >              /FIELDNAMES
>      >              /CELLS=LABELS.
>      >      
>      >      
>      > 
>      > I think you need to write it as /OUTFILE  (with a leading slash).
>      
>      Gosh, that's a terrible error message for that problem.
>      
> 
> It's also rather unfortunate that SAVE TRANSLATE  *requires* the leading slash
> on OUTFILE whereas for SAVE it is prohibited.
> 
> However I seem to remember some years ago that was exactly how SPSS behaved.

Yes, the SPSS is awful and inconsistent and it seems that PSPP should
behave the same way--for consistency!