[Gretl-devel] Re: saving gdtb: gretl retains old extension

On Mon, 11 Jan 2021, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Am 11.01.2021 um 16:12 schrieb Sven Schreiber: >> Hi, >> another minor glitch: I had a large Stata dta file and imported it into >> gretl - this actually worked flawlessly via dragging-and-dropping (on >> Windows). Then I went on to save it; in the save dialog gretl inserted >> the extension "gdt" automatically, and when I changed the format to the >> binary gdtb type in the drop-down box at the bottom, in the end I had a >> file ending in .gdt.gdtb. >> Obviously very easy to correct manually in various ways along the steps >> taken, but maybe now we want to shake out even minor stuff like this. > > Hm, I'm observing something strange with this conversion to gdtb, and > using the choice of "new missing codes". Please try the test under "data-io" at https://sourceforge.net/p/gretl/workspace/ci/master/tree/