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' > > -- > PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 > fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 > See http://pgp.mit.edu or any PGP keyserver for public key. > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFMpZanimdxnC3oJ7MRAlDPAJ4ziMuPlEhZwuf4HqBhSLAVyHgMnQCeLabk > L5M/o8nJyUAn8LqmoeXxtGU= > =kvQV > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
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