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3rd Party compatibility
From: |
John Darrington |
Subject: |
3rd Party compatibility |
Date: |
Fri, 20 May 2005 11:31:00 +0800 |
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I don't know if we want to spend a lot of time on this, but I thought I'd
ask the question anyway:
There's a 3rd party product to generate spss system files at
http://spss.pmstation.com and there's an example file for download.
I tried to load it using PSPP
error: corrupt system file: /home/res/jmd/test.sav: Number of elements per
case (-1) is not between 1 and 134217727.
Now this would seem to be their problem and not ours; they really have asked
for -1 elements per case. On the other hand, spss v12 reads this file OK
(somehow it guesses there are 4 variables).
So the question is: Should we
a) emulate SPSS's ability to read this faulty system file (for the
sake of 'compatibility')?
b) prefer 'correctness' and leave these guys to fix their own buggy
(and proprietary) product?
J'
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