Re: Problem with saving and output in Windows

[John Darrington]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:17:07AM +0100, Sohail Husain wrote:
      
     I am a new user and have just installed the compiled version of 0.7.2 on to
     my PC which is running Windows Vista.
      
     I find I am unable to save output. Selecting 'Save' from the drop down menu
     seems to have no effect. I have seen this problem mentioned in other
     postings but am unsure if it has been resolved.
      
     A second problem arises after closing the output window.  When I next try 
to
     'Save' my data file, the output mysteriously reappears!  Perhaps the two
     problems are related. If it output is reappearing, perhaps it has been 
saved
     in a file somewhere (but where and what is it called?).

The Save menuitem in the output window doesn't currently do anything.  However, 
you can find your output in a file called "psppire.txt".  I'm not sure which 
directory - you will have to search for it.
      
     Finally, is it possible to vary the number of characters printed per line 
in
     output tables to, for example, allow use of different papers sizes or
     landscape instead of portrait layout?

The answer is yes.  See the Chaper entitled "Configuring PSPP" in the user 
manual.
http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/manual/html_node/Configuration.html#Configuration
However, this is more relevant when using pspp from it's terminal interface 
rather
than its graphical interface, since the latter renders to the screen rather 
than 
to an external device.

Hope this helps.
      

J'
     
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