PSPP-BUG: bugs in PSPP 1.4.1 for Windows

[matt]

I’m on a Windows 10 Pro machine running GNU pspp 1.4.1-g79ad47.

 

Commands (or at least a number of commands I’ve tried) don’t work if there are hard returns / carriage returns in them.

 

EXAMPLE 1: THIS DOES NOT WORK

variable labels

gender 'This is the gender variable'.

 

HOWEVER THIS DOES WORK:

variable labels gender 'This is the gender variable'.

 

EXAMPLE 2: THIS DOES NOT WORK

value labels gender

1 'Male'

2 'Female'.

 

HOWEVER THIS DOES WORK:

value labels gender 1 'Male' 2 'Female'.

 

I also can't manually copy and paste anything in the data editor—e.g., variable names or variable labels or value labels—either from outside PSPP, like Excel, or from inside PSPP, like copying a set of value labels from one variable onto another long list of variables that use the same value labels (e.g., all common Likert scales like 1=Strongly Disagree to 5=Strongly Agree). I know these things can be done using syntax but it’s MUCH easier to just copy and paste them. Please save me from spending $3,000 on an SPSS perpetual license. That’s not bearable, but neither are these inconveniences in PSPP over the long run!  😊  Thanks much,

 

Matt Evans