Re: [Gretl-devel] opening large spss file kills the app without error message

On Fri, 15 Mar 2019, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote: > On Thu, 14 Mar 2019, Boris Demeshev wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> When I open a large spss file (0.9gb) in gretl 2019a on Ubuntu 18.04 >> the application exits without any error message. >> >> The file is the panel of Russian households, it may be downloaded >> freely after simple registration: https://www.hse.ru/en/rlms/downloads > > It seems there is a problem with variable names. I'll have a look at > this as soon as possible. A partial fix is in git now, but still the file can't be opened, because of another problem further down the road. It looks as if the Russian file is in a format newer than the one we can handle at present, so the fix is a bit more time-consuming and I'm afraid I'll be unable to look at it before Monday.