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Re: SPSS file record layout type 2 vs type 3


From: Ben Pfaff
Subject: Re: SPSS file record layout type 2 vs type 3
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:59:52 -0800
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Ben Pfaff <address@hidden> writes:
[about an SPSS .sav file]
> I tried loading this into the very old SPSS version.  It refused,
> saying that it came from a newer version of SPSS that had an
> incompatible .sav file format.  At this point it looked like you
> were right and that we should use 3 instead of 2.
>
> But then I used a hex editor to change that byte from 3 to 2.
> And the old version of SPSS then read it in with no complaints at
> all.  The dictionary was fine and so was the data.

In private email, John sent me another .sav file with layout code
3.  It showed the same behavior as the one that I described
above: if I change the layout code to 2, the older SPSS reads it
just fine.
-- 
Ben Pfaff 
http://benpfaff.org




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