Re: Get File command brings up correct data, but called Dataset1

[Ben Pfaff]

Jill Covert <address@hidden> writes:

> 1) When I use GET FILE in my syntax, the file with the data I want comes up,
> but it is named Datafile1 instead of the actual file name of what I
> opened--thus I have to overwrite the original file every time.

I believe that this is the way that GET works in SPSS as well.

You can use DATASET ACTIVATE and other DATASET commands to
arrange for multiple active datasets in syntax at any time.

> 2) SAVE OUTFILE command also does not save with the proposed file name. It
> does save a datafile with that name--it just isn't the active file.

I don't understand this.  What does it actually save?

> 3) The program is consistently crashing--on an increasing level--both on my
> laptop with Windows 7 and my work computer--Windows XP. I noticed this when I
> started using GET FILE, FILE HANDLE, MATCH FILES and SAVE OUTFILE commands.
>
> An example of syntax causing MinGW Runtime Assertion crash:
>
> MATCH FILES
>     /FILE='R:\evaluation\CBO exchange study\Data\IRC\1 Pre-training\INTP.sav'
>     /IN=respid_oe
>     /SORT 
>     /FILE='R:\evaluation\CBO exchange study\Data\IRC\4 30-day/INT30.sav'
>     /IN=respid_cw
>     /SORT
>     /BY respid
>     /KEEP=RespID Manager Org CoeCut ColCut DetCut EvaCut CW01 CW02 CW03 CW04
> CW05.
> SAVE OUTFILE= 'R:\evaluation\CBO exchange study\Data\Merged Data\
> INTPOE-INT30CW.sav'.

Any chance you could provide the data files, or at least a subset
(perhaps a few cases?) from the data files?  If we can reproduce
the problem, we can probably fix it, but it's very difficult
otherwise to guess what the problem is.