[Gretl-users] Re: Bundl request from dbnomics errors
On Fri, 24 Jun 2022, Sven Schreiber wrote:
OK, I got the error now. Here's my preliminary theory, based on
the
following error message from gretl together with the contents of my
dotdir (C:/...blabla..../AppData/Roaming/gretl):
File exists
*** error in function dbnomics_bundle_get_data, line 33
> outfile --buffer=tracestr
Apparently on Windows the "outfile --buffer" variant is working via
tempfiles. I'm seeing a lot of files in the dotdir on the pattern of
"outfile.3419N1", and indeed most of them contain the text "trying
append..." which comes from the outfile block.
This happens on Linux too. The difference is that those temporary files
should, in theory, be deleted once you exit gretl. Apparently, for some
reason this is not happening on windows, so some sort of name collision
occurs.
I have no way of checking atm (and besides, I don't have a windows
machine), but if this conjecture is true, it follows that (a) cleaning
these files "by hand" should be an effective remedy for the time being and
(b) this bug will be easy to fix in time for the next release, which is
due soon.
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Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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