Re: data set opening bug

[Ben Pfaff]

I think that the format used by STATA is suspicious at best.

However, I pushed a commit that avoids the warning reading the file.

On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 9:41 PM, John Darrington <address@hidden> wrote:

On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 11:46:31PM +0100, ftr wrote:

     However, my original question was about the error message
     >attention: 'C:\Users\Toshiba\Documents\data\world\qog_std_cs_jan15.sav' pr?s du
     >segment 0x340a3 :Record type 7, subtype 18 found here has the same type as the
     >record found near offset 0x3406a.  For help, please send this file to bug-gnu-
     >address@hidden and mention that you were using GNU PSPP 0.9.0-g3a3d58.

     Did you have the get the same error message ?

Yes.  I see that too.   It seems that this file has been created neither by PSPP nor
SPSS but by STATA.  Possibly STATA has generated it incorrectly, or perhaps it is a
correct but unusual format.

J'


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