Re: SPSS file record layout type 2 vs type 3

[John Darrington]

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 ?

J'

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