RE: systemfile: variable width

[Wilson,Tom]

SPSS 13 does not support value labels longer than 60 characters.  It
does support string variables much longer than 255 characters.  It does
NOT support variable labels longer than 255 characters.

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From: Jaap-Andre de Hoop [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 11:40 AM
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Subject: Re: systemfile: variable width

At 20:10 22-04-2005, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>"Wilson,Tom" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I am pretty sure that I understand what support for long variable 
> > names is, but what was meant by the "value labels" part of that?
>
>I don't remember the original context.  PSPP supports value labels up 
>to 60 characters long at the moment, which matches the limit described 
>in the SPSS 12.0 documentation.  Should we extend it?

SPSS 13 should support them, but that version is not shipped in Holland
yet....
We use pspp for webquestionnaires to generate systemfiles and it would
be usefull to have longer labels, but a lot of users don't have the
latest spss version (including myself). I don't think we are going to
use the long var/val labels the next 2 -3 year. But if it is a small
piece of work.....

Groets,

Jaap-Andre