John Darrington <[email protected]> writes: > Regarding the length of value labels: removing the 60 byte limit will > cause problems when it comes to writing the data to a .sav file. > Whilst recent spss versions can read/write value labels of any length, > it does so by using a special extension to the file format. > > There's no fundamental reason why pspp can't also support arbitrary > length labels, but since one of the goals of pspp is to be compatible > with spss, before it's done, we would need to support these extensions > too. If you're interested in doing this work, this will require a > little bit of reverse engineering upon existing spss .sav files to > discover how very long value labels are encoded > (test/dissect-sysfile.c might help you) and add the appropriate code > to src/data/sys-file-writer.c and src/data/sys-file-reader.c
If anyone can point to some .sav files that have extra-long labels, then I'll implement support for longer labels myself. -- "If a person keeps faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he can count on waking up some morning to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation." --William James _______________________________________________ pspp-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-dev
