Re: PSPP-BUG: importing .cvs and .txt files

[Ben Pfaff]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 08:53:27PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 07:45:03AM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > Can someone who has a Mac and Excel (Jeremy?) please try exporting a
> > file to .csv or .txt in Excel?  The contents do not matter, except that
> > the file should have at least a few rows.  Then run "hexdump -C" on the
> > generated file and paste the output into an email.
> 
> One of my coworkers helped me with this.  We found that on a Mac, Excel
> exports .csv files with CR-only line ends.  On Windows, Excel exports
> .csv files with CR+LF line ends.
> 
> I will work on making PSPP work OK with these files.

I added this information to an existing PSPP bug report:
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=40605