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"Strange. As you should have all rights on your own files, the only
reason I can imagine is that an other proces is locking your file."
That's what I thought - but my WinXP account is described as 'Computer
Administrator'.
"Is it possible that you have some size limitation on your disk
..."
Doubtful ? The RAM is 2Gb, with about 70 Gb free on the hard
disk
"Is it possible for you to try it on another
PC/installation?"
Sorry, no, there's only 1 WinXP PC - I've just tried a Win98
installation of PSPP Windows, but it led to a 'Blue Screen' crash.
"Maybe someone else reading this list has an idea or can report if
somebody has the same problems?"
Agree !
Regards,
Dave.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2008 9:37
PM
Subject: Re: 0.6.0-10 PSPP windows -
Queries (WinXP)
Hmmm
2008/8/3 David Purdy
OK:
1) psppire.txt - editpadlite won't open it: "Access is denied" (and
ditto with the same message using Windows Notepad)
Strange. As you should have all rights on your own files, the only
reason I can imagine is that an other proces is locking your file. (You didn't
switch from account I assume.) A wild guess, try to create the psppire.txt
before you start psppire itself. Maybe you get some information from
that!
Is it possible that you have some size limitation on your disk
which revoke's your access when you are over the limit?
2) Quicker 'Save' - I've had some mixed results, maybe influenced by
working with a large file (>500,000 records). After trying
something similar to the very slow save reported earlier (after deleting all
but about 7 fields), I got the impression that the file was being created
much more quickly.
Nice that is what I expected from using the temp variable/directory.
However, with other tests, I've also encountered PSPP Windows being
closed almost immediately after the Save instruction, and having also
created this file:
C:\Documents and Settings\David\Local
Settings\Temp\psppire.exe.stackdump
This means psppire is aborted. No idea why. You are sure your disk is
large enough?
For me it looks as if there is some, not PSPP related,
problem on your PC. I can't reproduce these results. Is it possible for you to
try it on another PC/installation?
Maybe someone else reading this
list has an idea or can report if somebody has the same problems?
Have
fun.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2008 8:43 PM
Subject: Re: 0.6.0-10 PSPP windows - Queries (WinXP)
OK:
1) psppire.txt - editpadlite won't open it: "Access is denied" (and
ditto with the same message using Windows Notepad)
2) Quicker 'Save' - I've had some mixed results, maybe influenced by
working with a large file (>500,000 records). After trying
something similar to the very slow save reported earlier (after deleting all
but about 7 fields), I got the impression that the file was being created
much more quickly.
However, with other tests, I've also encountered PSPP Windows being
closed almost immediately after the Save instruction, and having also
created this file:
C:\Documents and Settings\David\Local
Settings\Temp\psppire.exe.stackdump
Regards,
Dave.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2008 4:34
PM
Subject: Re: 0.6.0-10 PSPP windows -
Queries (WinXP)
Hi Dave Unfortunately I couldn't reproduce your
problem on WindowsXP/SP3 or SP2. I use the (free) program editpadlite http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html
for viewing the psppire.txt file. I assume there are more text
editors which give a good result. I can imagine that a editor may lock the
psppire.txt file and cause the problem you describe. Would you mind
checking if it works with editpadlite ? And I am eager to hear if
introducing the temp variable solved the problem with the long waiting
times? Have fun.
2008/8/3 David Purdy <address@hidden>
Thanks, again. I've set up both temp & tmp as WinXP
environment variables, as suggested, and am concentrating on PSPP
Windows just for the moment.
There seems to be an ongoing issue with psppire.txt (which contains
the analysis output), whereby its existence may be hindering/stopping
2nd and subsequent analyses.
After launching in PSPP Windows, the *first* use of say a crosstab
is fine, and creates:
C:\Documents and Settings\David\Local
Settings\Temp\psppire.txt
(used to be C:\Cygwin\psppire.txt with temp & tmp
not set as environment variables)
However, the next (say crosstab) analysis seems not to
materialise. Quitting and restarting allows another
analysis, but the problem reappears thereafter.
Regards,
Dave.
-----
Original Message -----
Sent:
Saturday, August 02, 2008 9:42 PM
Subject:
Re: 0.6.0-10 PSPP windows - Queries (WinXP)
Hmm.. I am surprised that XP works without temp.
I guess you have a lot of ram. (and some problems) Is there a
tmp environment variable? Check it with "set tmp". It is normal
that you have a tmp and temp environment variable. I would
advice: - In your case, check if C:\Documents and
Settings\David\Local Settings\Temp is available. If not create
it. - go to "This computer" right mouse click and then
"preferences". Choose "advanced". Choose "environment
variables". (the names might differ on your computer because
I use windows in my own language. So my translation ccould be
wrong.) - Create a new one with the name "temp" and the value
"%userprofile%\Local Settings\Temp" - if there is a tmp
environment variable, this should have the same value. Otherwise I
would say create it also. Few programs use it, but is is better to
have the variable and let it point to the same directory. -
reboot I wonder if this helps with the issues. Have
fun.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 9:09 PM
Subject: Re: 0.6.0-10 PSPP windows - Queries
(WinXP)
Sorry ...
C:\Documents and Settings\David>set temp
Environment
variable temp not defined
Regards,
Dave.
-----
Original Message -----
Sent:
Saturday, August 02, 2008 8:54 PM
Subject:
Re: 0.6.0-10 PSPP windows - Queries (WinXP)
Hi Dave I mean a Windows temp directory. The one
witch is reported when you type the command "set temp". Have
fun
2008/8/2 David Purdy <address@hidden>
Many thanks for the feedback and the .bat file.
"Is there a temp directory on your
installation?" Three:
C:\Cygwin\var\tmp
C:\Cygwin\usr\tmp
C:\Cygwin\tmp
Regards,
Dave.
-----
Original Message -----
Sent:
Saturday, August 02, 2008 7:31 PM
Subject:
Re: 0.6.0-10 PSPP windows - Queries (WinXP)
Hi
>> 2) Copy from Output1 Window ? - The select all/copy doesn't
>> appear to paste into Windows notepad or Word 2003. Is there
>> another way of saving the output data ?
>I vaguely remember another Windows user reporting the same
>problem. I think that this must be a Windows-specific bug that
>we will have to have a Windows developers take a look at.
Right this is reported before.
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?23568>
>Presumably the Command
line version is pspp.exe ? - Although
C:\Cygwin\usr\local\bin\pspp.exe won't run, an error
message says it can't find cygwin1.dll (it's here:
C:\Cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll)
It is not that easy. You have
to use the cygwin environemnt. Start a dosbox, execute the .bat
file I attached to this message as *.ba and after that you can
start PSPP in commandline mode.
>I've noticed
that, after a frequency computation, a file called
C:\Cygwin\psppire.txt is created - which contains the output
(but the file disappears immediately after 'quitting
!). I guess this is the only way you can copy the output
before you quit. :-( But this is strange. This file should be in
your windows temp directory. Is there a temp directory on your
installation? Have fun.
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