RE: FW: PSPP output

[Crichton, Ronald]

Please see the attached screen shots.  While the Output Viewer displays LIST as 
expected, when exported to Text the format is altered with horizontal lines and 
headings being added.  I viewed the text file in Notepad, Wordpad, and UltraEdit

Thank you,  Ron



-----Original Message-----
From: John Darrington [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Tuesday, 2 April 2013 5:47 PM
To: Crichton, Ronald
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: FW: PSPP output

On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 03:16:23AM +0000, Crichton, Ronald wrote:
     Thank you for your advice.  I found the HTML to have the most pleasing 
output, and it copies reasonably into email.  However, I would have expected a 
text file to be the easiest to use, but this was not the case.  In the PSPP 
Viewer the result of a LIST command presents data neatly in columns.  However, 
when Export is used to send the View output to a text file, the result is that 
the list headings are repeated following (almost) every data line.  Which is 
not a desired format.

     What you have said is a nice workable solution, but it would be good if 
output to text could work as well.


I did some experiments myself.  I could not reproduce the problem you described.
I tried copy-paste to various text editors: including emacs, gedit and 
libreoffice.  I noticed one small problem, and I have raised a bug report for 
it ( https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?38647 ) but otherwise everything 
pastes as one would expect.

I also tried File|Export in the output viewer and that seemed to be perfect.

If you can post your syntax file I can see if I can provoke the same problem 
that you are seeing, and maybe suggest a fix.

You mentioned that you were working under Windows.  Perhaps that is the problem.
Interaction with windows programs is often troublesome, because their 
interfaces are generally secret.  Take note of the faq item at 
https://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/faq.html#NonFreeOS


J'

(I would strongly advise you NOT to send anyone an email in HTML format.  Such
emails are extremely annoying.  Any I receive I usually delete unread.  However
that is just my personal opinion.)
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( I would strongly advise you NOT to send anyone an email in HTML format.  Such 
emails are extremely annoying. Any I
receive I usually delete unread.  However that is just my personal opinion.)

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