Solved with 4.0.3! (was Re: PSPP-BUG: Unrecognized record type 7, subtype 1 encountered in system file.)

[Marc Lijour]

On November 3, 2007 11:26:45 pm Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Marc Lijour <address@hidden> writes:
> > I get a bug with this syntax:
> >
> > PSPP> get /file=cmdata.sav.
> > warning: : Unrecognized record type 7, subtype 1 encountered in system
> > file.
> >
> > I attached the file.
> > I am running pspp-0.4.0.1/pspp-0.4.0.1/ freshly compiled on Mandriva 2008
> > on x86_64.
>
> This warning should be harmless.  Is there any other malfunction
> for reading this file?
>
> If the warning bothers you, you can upgrade to a more recent PSPP
> snapshot, for example the one at
>         ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/pspp/pspp-2007.10.02.tar.gz
> This version of PSPP will not issue the warning, and it is
> improved in many other ways as well.

Hi Ben,

you are right. I got the bug with the LIST command.
But with this new version I get neither the bug nor the warning.

Thank you.
Keep the good work!

Marc

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Old bug

$ pspp
PSPP is free software and you are welcome to distribute copies of it
under certain conditions; type "show copying." to see the conditions.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY for PSPP; type "show warranty." for details.
GNU pspp 0.4.0.1 (Thu Nov  1 02:57:14 EDT 2007).
PSPP> get  /file=cmdata.sav.
warning: : Unrecognized record type 7, subtype 1 encountered in system file.
PSPP> help.
error: Unknown command help.
warning: This command not executed.
warning: The rest of this command has been discarded.
PSPP> list.
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You have discovered a bug in PSPP.

  Please report this, by sending an email to address@hidden,
explaining what you were doing when this happened, and including
a sample of your input file which caused it.
Also, please copy the following lines into your bug report:

bare_version:        0.4.0.1
version:             GNU pspp 0.4.0.1
stat_version:        GNU pspp 0.4.0.1 (Thu Nov  1 02:57:14 EDT 2007).
host_system:         x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
build_system:        x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
default_config_path: ~/.pspp:/usr/local/etc/pspp
include_path:        ./:~/.pspp/include:/usr/local/share/pspp
groff_font_path:     
~/.pspp/font:/usr/local/share/pspp/font:/usr/local/lib/groff/font:/usr/lib/groff/font:/usr/local/share/groff/font:/usr/share/groff/font
locale_dir:          /usr/local/share/locale
compiler version:    4.2.2 20070909 (prerelease) (4.2.2-0.RC.1mdv2008.0)
Diagnosis: Segmentation Violation
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Aborted