Re: [Gretl-users] ODBC dsn=.... error
On Thu, 7 May 2015, Les Snyder wrote:
I recently upgraded to the latest Gretl release to take advantage of
the
join functionality for .gdt tables. Unfortunately now my "Open dsn="
statements produce an error. [...]
The statement producing the error is: "open dsn=GretlPort --odbc #This is
the (Gretl Port Engine.accdb)
The error produced is: "You must specify a DSN using 'dsn=...'"
Sorry, that got broken between gretl 1.9.92 and 1.10.0. It's now fixed
in CVS and snapshots. However, there's a simple workaround for the
1.10.1 release: add one word of "padding" between "open" and the dsn
specifier, as in
open pad dsn=GretlPort --odbc
(Don't do this with current CVS/snapshot!)
Allin Cottrell