Re: GNU PSPP 0.6.2-pre6 now available

[Ben Pfaff]

Robert Westlund <address@hidden> writes:

> VARIABLE LABELS Q7 "For analysis purposes only, could you please tell
> me what is the total number of covered lives (i.e. the total number of
> members plus lives covered with non-managed indemnity, ASO
> (Administrative Services Organization) or other health business) of
> your or".
>
>
> I get the following error from psppire 0.6.2 when opening the SAV file
> produced with pspp, which seems incorrect, since the label contains
> only 255 characters.
>
> PSPP error: "/Users/rob/Downloads/rob_utf8-1.sav" near offset 0x4f5c:
> Variable Q7 has label of invalid length 256.

Hmm, that bug should be easy to fix.  Are you willing to send me
a copy of your file?  You don't have to copy it to the list, if
it contains confidential data; I will not share it.

Does the converter at http://pspp.benpfaff.org/ display anything
sensible for this file?
-- 
Ben Pfaff 
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