Re: rc file used by psppire?

[Harry Thijssen]

Hi

My idea behind was that the rc file could be used to change to defaults of psppire. It would be possible to create a link in the MSWindows build so people can edit this file with notepad in a more or less userfriendly way without the need of programming a configuration part.

For PSPP I don think it makes sense as people who use the commandline version will be able to include the settings in there setup.
 

Have fun

2016-09-25 19:32 GMT+02:00 Ben Pfaff <address@hidden>:

On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 09:10:33PM +0200, Harry Thijssen wrote:
> Hi
> ===============
> In the news file (change to 0.6)  I found:
>     * If a syntax file named named `rc' is found in a configuration
>       directory (such as $HOME/.pspp), it is executed before any
>       syntax file specified on the command line.  The -r or
>       --no-statrc command line option may be used to disable this
>       behavior.
> ==================
>
> In the manual I didn't find it. Does it also work for psppire? I
> played a bit with it but had no result.

The GUI doesn't run an rc file.

> If it is used for psppire, is the filename rc or rc.sps or pspp.rc or
> ..... And any idea where it should be placed in a MSWindows
> environment?

It's just named "rc".  PSPP searches $HOME (the value of the environment
variable HOME) and the current directory.  If there's a better default
for Windows, we can search that too.