Re: [Gretl-users] Export to Stata fails
On Wed, 10 Apr 2019, Allin Cottrell wrote:
[Re. Sven's discovery that a Stata .dta file written by gretl on
Windows, via "/File/Export data", was corrupted]
OK. The problem seems to be independent of the Stata version, and
amounts to the fact that gretl's stata exporter is broken on
Windows. If I produce a dta of the penngrow data on Linux, it's
fine; if I do so on Windows it's broken from observation 50 onward.
This is now fixed in git and snapshots. We were using the POSIX
open/write API for producing the binary dta file. I thought this would
be OK on Windows via mingw but apparently it is not. We've now
switched to use of the standard C fopen/fwrite API.
Allin