PSPP-BUG: [bug #21280] gui truncates system files.

[John Darrington]

Update of bug #21280 (project pspp):

                  Status:                   Fixed => In Progress            
             Assigned to:                    None => blp                    

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Follow-up Comment #6:

The situation is ....

System files no longer get truncated.  This is good.

Your test shows that the system behaves as you intend, but not as I expected.
 I expected the syntax

 get file='foo.sav'.
 save outfile='foo.sav'.

to run without error, whereas your test expects it to produce an error.  This
syntax runs without error under spss as does the slightly more useful
example:

 get file='foo.sav'.
 compute y = x.
 save outfile='foo.sav'.

In any case, I imagine that most gui users would expect to be able to: open a
file, add some data and/or variables, click "Save" and have the new data
written back to the existing file without error.
 


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