Ben Kujala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm not really up to speed on what I am doing, and I made an obvious mistake > of trying to write out to the por file using the save outfile command. Even > though an > astute user wouldn't do that, I thought it may be good to let you know it > crashed the program... > > PSPP> save outfile='/home/bkujala/ops/ops2004_hh.por'. > error: SAVE: Can't open "/home/bkujala/ops/ops2004_hh.por" as a system file > because it is already open as a portable file
Thanks for the report. I'll take care of that. > When I went back to try and import the file again I received this message... > > PSPP> import file='/home/bkujala/ops/ops2004_hh.por'. > error: portable file /home/bkujala/ops/ops2004_hh.por corrupt at offset 457: > Missing SPSSPORT signature. That sounds normal for something that isn't a portable file. I guess that I could make the error message clearer. Perhaps something like "This does not appear to be a portable file." > After restoring the file from a backup copy everything worked > without any errors. Now I just have to work out how to covert > the files to CSV and maybe play around in pspp also. I have to > admit I am not even sure how to check if the data loaded > correctly into the program. I'll start digging through the > documents on your website next week. Thank you once again for > you work. I hope I was able to help out a bit. You should be able to easily make sure that the data appears correct by issuing a "list." command and then looking at pspp.list. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ pspp-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-dev
