there is an SPSS-fix for this problem, a legacy viewer. http://www.spss.com/media/software/SPSS_Legacy_Viewer_win_en.exe
and this automizer: "The Legacy viewer installer is not properly associating itself with .spo files. This problem has been reported to SPSS Development for remediation in a future release. We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused. In the meantime, you can manually create the association within Windows, or, a registry file is available online which will create this association for you:" ftp://ftp.spss.com/pub/spss/windows/74989.reg On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > Rochelle E Tractenberg <[email protected]> writes: > >> my institution, like many others, has *some* licensed features of >> spss, but misses many that I need. that wasn't sufficient to drive me >> to open source - but now, we are forced to use SPSS 18 and it >> stipulates that it will not open any .spo file - ie, 13 years' worth >> of using SPSS is now inaccessible to me. I am wholly new to pspp, so >> can anyone tell me if it will open .spo files? > > No, PSPP cannot read SPSS output files (though it can read SPSS > data and syntax files). > -- > Ben Pfaff > http://benpfaff.org > -- Rochelle E. Tractenberg, Ph. D., M.P.H. Director, Collaborative for Research on Outcomes and -Metrics Neurology Biostatistics, Bioinformatics & Biomathematics Psychiatry Georgetown University Medical Center 291 Building D 4000 Reservoir Road NW Washington, D.C. 20057 (T) 202.687.2247 (F) 202.784.3504 http://dbbb.georgetown.edu/faculty/secondaryappt/#RochelleNew _______________________________________________ Pspp-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users
