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Re: SPSS file record layout type 2 vs type 3
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Ben Pfaff |
Subject: |
Re: SPSS file record layout type 2 vs type 3 |
Date: |
Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:00:21 -0800 |
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John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:
> On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 09:50:29AM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>
> I hope that you have found the PSPP documentation on the system
> file format. This is drawn from the wotsit documentation plus
> pretty extensive experience with actual SPSS files around the
> web. The source for the latest version of the PSPP documentation
> can be found at:
>
> http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/pspp/doc/dev/system-file-format.texi?root=pspp&view=markup
>
>
> Now that I look at this, I notice that PSPP always writes the value 2.
> The spss documentation suggests that this implies that the file can be
> read by versions prior spss v7.5; I've never tested any of our files
> with such an old version. So shouldn't we be writing 3 instead ?
I have access to a very old version of SPSS (older than 7.5). If
you like, I'll try out some .sav files with it to see whether the
"version number" here makes any difference.
--
Ben Pfaff
http://benpfaff.org
Re: SPSS file record layout type 2 vs type 3, John Darrington, 2008/03/03