Re: problem loading SPSS 15.0 save files

[Ben Pfaff]

"Daniel E WILLIAMS" <address@hidden> writes:

> If I save a file in SPSS 15.0 (for Windows), and then try to
> load it in PSPP interactive mode, I get the following error:

Thanks for attaching the system file.  It seems that SPSS 15 is
now indicating the "code page" of the system file in a slot where
it previously just had essentially a constant value.  PSPP
doesn't expect that and so gives an error.

If you are able to apply the following patch to the source code,
and then rebuild, it should fix the problem:

cd /home/blp/pspp/pspp-0.4.0/src/
diff -up /home/blp/pspp/pspp-0.4.0/src/sfm-read.c\~ 
/home/blp/pspp/pspp-0.4.0/src/sfm-read.c
--- /home/blp/pspp/pspp-0.4.0/src/sfm-read.c~   2005-07-30 13:06:30.000000000 
-0700
+++ /home/blp/pspp/pspp-0.4.0/src/sfm-read.c    2006-11-29 11:12:42.000000000 
-0800
@@ -548,12 +548,14 @@ read_machine_int32_info (struct sfm_read
                                          : _("unknown"))));
 
   /* PORTME: Character representation code. */
+#if 0
   if (data[7] != 2 && data[7] != 3) 
     lose ((ME, _("%s: File-indicated character representation code (%s) is "
                  "not ASCII."),
            handle_get_filename (r->fh),
            (data[7] == 1 ? "EBCDIC"
             : (data[7] == 4 ? _("DEC Kanji") : _("Unknown")))));
+#endif
 
   return 1;
 

Diff finished at Wed Nov 29 11:12:46

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