RE: multiple commands in one pass of data

[la]

Setting maxwarns to a large number presents a different problem.  My file is
well over 255 million records and pspp generates a error statement for each
record/variable that contains blanks if it's defined as numeric. So the pspp
would generate an enormous report.

I tried using SET BLANKS=0 or other data transformation to convert blanks to
0 within my pspp syntax file but it seems that the error is generated as
soon as it reads the data before anything else happens.  Does this mean that
I have to first process the file outside of pspp to convert blanks to 0?

Thanks
Luis Avila

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Pfaff [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 4:15 PM
To: la
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: multiple commands in one pass of data

"la" <address@hidden> writes:

> Thoughts on a workaround?

You can set MXWARNS to a very large value, such as 10000000.

In the long term PSPP should implement "SET MXWARNS=0" to
suppress all warnings.  I've filed a bug report (and CC'd you):
        http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?30693

Thank you for the report.
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