John Darrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 08:23:44PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > > 1. I doubt SPSS does anything similar. Have you tested > it? (I have not.) I suspect that you would get > similar behavior to the above using SPSS. > > No I've not tested it to see what SPSS does in this situation. Maybe > I'll try it this week if I get a chance.
[...] > Maybe we should find out exactly what SPSS does. I think that's the thing to do. I will try to test it out in the next few days. If you get to it before me, pass along your results, and I will do the same. > Oh, one more thing--do you have an idea of how SPSS does short > name mappings? The SPSS 12.0 manual suggests it uses a base-10 > suffix with a underscore separator. The "pseudo base-27" idea is > cute but if possible I'd rather be compatible. > > SPSS definitely does the "quasi base 27" thing (at least the copy I > have access to does). Base 10 or "real" base 27 would have been > simpler, but I spent the extra effort emulating what SPSS does. What > exactly in the SPSS manual leads you to believe it does base 10 ? I assumed that it used base 10 because the description I saw in the manual was so brief and didn't say anything about base 27. If you actually tested it--or found a more accurate description--and emulated it then that's great, glad to hear it. -- "...I've forgotten where I was going with this, but you can bet it was scathing." --DesiredUsername _______________________________________________ pspp-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-dev
