Re: Old mainframe save file

[Ben Pfaff]

Chris Muller <address@hidden> writes:

> Will PSPP read save files originally created on a mainframe?  (about 25 years
> ago). I have one that seems to comply with the file format as documented by
> Ben. The text fields are EBCDIC of course. Data is big-endian. The first
> record starts with $FL2 as prescribed. Next with 00002, etc.
>  
> Docs seem to imply endian-ness will be dealt with properly.
>  
> But PSPP v7.8 gives an error opening the file.  Any thoughts?  Thanks.

Probably there is some kind of small difference in the file
format or some small bug in the PSPP reader.  If you can provide
the .sav file (I will not share it) then I'm happy to find and
fix the bug.  That's ideal, but alternatively if you can run
pspp-dump-sav and show as much of the output as you can, then
that might be helpful enough to find the problem too.

Thanks,

Ben.
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