Re: systemfile: variable width

[Ben Pfaff]

Jaap-Andre de Hoop <address@hidden> writes:

> At 20:10 22-04-2005, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>>"Wilson,Tom" <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> > I am pretty sure that I understand what support for long variable names
>> > is, but what was meant by the "value labels" part of that?
>>
>>I don't remember the original context.  PSPP supports value
>>labels up to 60 characters long at the moment, which matches the
>>limit described in the SPSS 12.0 documentation.  Should we extend
>>it?
>
> SPSS 13 should support them, but that version is not shipped in Holland 
> yet....
> We use pspp for webquestionnaires to generate systemfiles and it would
> be usefull to have longer labels, but a lot of users don't have the
> latest spss version (including myself). I don't think we are going to
> use the long var/val labels the next 2 -3 year. But if it is a small
> piece of work.....

It would be easy to extend the maximum length.  I will consider
doing it soon.
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