Re: RE: PSPP for windows doesn't save files (Charles Johnson)

[John Darrington]

On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 06:03:21PM -0300, address@hidden wrote:
     <div>Hi, Charles. I did it. I installed the lats two 64 bits versions and 
the last 32 bits. All the time I did unisyalled and tried with other versions. 
The problem persists.</div>
     <div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">I always 
recieve those messages:</span></div>
     <div style="font-size: 12.8px;">??</div>
     <div style="font-size: 12.8px;">
     <div>"error: Creating temporary file 
C:\Users\Andr??\Documents\test.sav.tmpdiMErt: No</div>

Ughh

This is an old problem.   The problem is, You have non-ascii characters in your 
home path.    This is an 
annoying ongoing problem with the Windows port.

You can work around it, by either:

1. Saving to a path which has only ascii characters.  Try C:\Temp\test.sav  OR
2. Running pspp on a different operating system, such as GNU or GNU/Linux.
   Note, that we don't recommend running on Windows.  Whilst in general it
   works well, occasionally issues arise.  This is one of them.


J'


     <div>such file or directory.</div>
     <div>??</div>
     <div>error: Error opening `C:\Users\Andr??\Documents\test.sav' for writing 
as a</div>
     <div>system file: No such file or directory".</div>
     <div>??</div>
     <div>The computer used is a Dell Inspiron 3442. I'm not sure if the 
problem is related to dell computers, since??<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">I 
also installed the last 64 bits version in a windows 10 HP computer and had no 
problems.</span></div>
     <div><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">??</span></div>
     <div><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Thanks</span></div>
     <div>??</div>
     </div>
     <div>??</div>
     <hr style="border-top: 1px solid #ccc;" />
     <div><br /><strong>De:</strong> address@hidden<br 
/>strong>Enviada:</strong> Sexta-feira, 2 de Outubro de 2015 22:52<br 
/><strong>Para:</strong> address@hidden<br /><strong>Assunto:</strong> RE: PSPP 
for windows doesn't save files (Charles Johnson)<br /><br /><br />&gt; I have 
PSPP for Windows in another computer, Windows 10 64 bits, and it<br />&gt; 
works properly.<br />&gt;<br />&gt; What do I do?<br />&gt;<br /><br /><br />I 
would suggest uninstalling PSPPbr />If the PSPP directory still exists, delete 
it.<br />Then install PSPP again.<br /><br /><br />&gt;<br />&gt; Andr?<br 
/>&gt;<br />&gt; Hello. At some time I had a similar problem in Windows 8. Did 
you try<br />&gt; installing PSPP as an administrator?<br /><br /><br />That is 
not necessary. The installer detects if you are administrator and<br />install 
PSPP system wide if you are. If you install it as normal user it<br />will 
install the program only for the user which is used for installing.<br />This 
way PSPP can for instance be installed on la computers where you have<br />no 
administrator rights.<br /><br /><br />&gt; You can also check where PSPP is 
installed.<br />&gt; If you still have this problem, write a bug report. first 
see:<br />&gt; <a 
href="https://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/manual/html_node/Bugs.html#Bugs"; 
target="_blank">https://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/manual/html_node/Bugs.html#Bugs</a><br
 />&gt; CJT<br />&gt;<br />&gt;<b

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