Re: Experimental Microsoft Windows binary

[Alan Mead]

    John,
    
    Thanks for looking into this. Your Windows binary seemed to work
    fine for me in light testing. 
    
    Unlike Dr. Walter, I was able to export to PDF but in this log,
    every line was doubled. Is that normal? I'm attaching the PDF.
    
    Does the installation script uninstall over versions? If not (and
    perhaps until that is completely tested) I would recommend a warning
    for the user to manually uninstall all prior versions first. 
    
    I think this is great and we should ask for wider testing.
    
    -Alan

On 3/27/2021 10:29 AM, John Darrington wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 03:11:15PM +0100, Dr. Oliver Walter wrote:
>      Thank you, John Darrington. I tested your installer on a Windows 10
>      computer. PSPP was installed, but a DOS window also opened and had some
>      warnings:
>
> I noticed these too, but I think they are harmless.
>      
>      I did a simple linear regression analysis and got some results, but I was
>      not able to export the PSPP output into a working pdf file: The pdf file
>      was created, but when I opened it it was empty.
>
> That is strange.  I explicitly tested that feature and it certainly worked for
> me.
>
>
> Since I don't normally use windows, I'm afraid it is going to be up to more
> knowledgeable about windows to fix these issues.
>
> Thanks for the report anyway.
>
> J'
>
>     
    
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