From: Ben Pfaff <address@hidden>
To: Mogerman Rob <address@hidden>
Cc: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, July 5, 2016 5:13 PM
Subject: Re: translate syntax
On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 04:04:16PM +0000, Mogerman Rob wrote:
> Hi - I'm a very novice user and I'm trying to turn a .sav file into a .csv file. It looks like the translate command should be able to do what I'm wanting but I get an error. I get a file from a vendor called xxxx.sav and I need to turn the file into a .csv so I can process it for other software. The commands I'm trying are....
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> GET FILE="xxxx.sav".SAVE TRANSLATE OUTFILE='xxxx1.csv' /TYPE=CSV /MAP /REPLACE /FIELDNAMES /CELLS=LABELS.
> The list file shows...
> 05 Jul 2016 - Page 1 GNU pspp 0.6.2 - i686-pc-linux-gnu make_csv.psp:2: error: SAVE TRANSLATE is unimplemented.
I guess you are using a very old version of PSPP.
New enough versions do implement SAVE TRANSLATE. With these versions,
you can also do this from the command prompt:
pspp-convert file.sav file.csv