Re: using pspp to access .spo files from pre-SPSS v.18 ? [SOLVED]

[Rochelle E Tractenberg]

there is an SPSS-fix for this problem, a legacy viewer.

http://www.spss.com/media/software/SPSS_Legacy_Viewer_win_en.exe

and this automizer:

"The Legacy viewer installer is not properly associating itself with
.spo files. This problem has been reported to SPSS Development for
remediation in a future release. We apologize for any inconvenience
this has caused. In the meantime, you can manually create the
association within Windows, or, a registry file is available online
which will create this association for you:"

ftp://ftp.spss.com/pub/spss/windows/74989.reg

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Ben Pfaff <address@hidden> wrote:
> Rochelle E Tractenberg <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> my institution, like many others, has *some* licensed features of
>> spss, but misses many that I need. that wasn't sufficient to drive me
>> to open source - but now, we are forced to use SPSS 18 and it
>> stipulates that it will not open any .spo file - ie, 13 years' worth
>> of using SPSS is now inaccessible to me. I am wholly new to pspp, so
>> can anyone tell me if it will open .spo files?
>
> No, PSPP cannot read SPSS output files (though it can read SPSS
> data and syntax files).
> --
> Ben Pfaff
> http://benpfaff.org
>



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