Re: [Gretl-devel] SPSS file

On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Cottrell, Allin <cottrell(a)wfu.edu&gt; wrote: > On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Sven Schreiber <svetosch(a)gmx.net&gt; wrote: >> Hi, >> >> here's an (alleged) SPSS file downloaded from Eurostat which won't be >> imported into gretl (TIME field has invalid length or somesuch is the >> error). >> >> I have no idea whether that's a gretl import bug or the file is not >> according to spec. Maybe somebody out there has SPSS and can tell. > It may be the big endianness of the file that's a problem (or possibly the > fact that it was created using pspp rather than SPSS). I'll see what I can > find out. There was a bug in the facility for handling big-endian SPSS files on little-endian systems. That's now fixed in CVS. However, this file is quite strange and arguably mal-formed. I opened it in pspp (I don't have SPSS) and it looked just as strange there as in gretl.