Thanks John,

The --help command gave me everything I needed. I will check to see if I
have the right docs, if so, and they are inconsistent with the 0.75
commands, I will submit a bug report.

regards
Ben

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 7:07 PM, John Darrington <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 04:46:40PM +1000, Ben de Haan wrote:
>
>     I have found that some of the documented command line configuration
> options
>     are failing to be recognized. For example '--config-dir', '--device' &
>     '--out-file'.
>
> These options are from a former version.  You say they are "documented",
> but I am
> fairly sure all reference has been deleted from the manual for 0.7.5 -- if
> not, then
> that is a bug, and should be reported as such.
>
>     I receive an error message saying: unrecognized option when trying to
> use
>     these. However others are working. For example '--algorithm'.
>
> You can easily get a summary  of the supported options in the version you
> are using by
> typing "pspp --help".
>
>     The synatx file parses correctly if I omit all command line options.
>
> That's good.   The idea is that the most common usage should work without
> any options.
> The options exist for people who want to do something unusual.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> J'
>
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