Re: [Gretl-users] Eviews Import - a bug report

Dear Allin, I have attached files with some examples of Eviews files, where the names imply the date ranges. I have taken a pick at the hex dump of the files and it seems to me that the word (two bytes) located at offsets 84 and 85 Hex contain the starting period within the year. Hope this helps, With kind regards, Ofer Cornfeld -----Original Message----- From: gretl-users-bounces(a)lists.wfu.edu [mailto:gretl-users-bounces@lists.wfu.edu] On Behalf Of Allin Cottrell Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 10:28 PM To: Gretl list Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] Eviews Import - a bug report On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Ofer Cornfeld wrote: Thanks. Unfortunately, getting date information out of Eviews files is a guessing game, because they use an unpublished proprietary binary format (which we have attempted to reverse-engineer). I thought we had guessed how to find the starting period correctly, but it seems not. If you have access to Eviews, it might be helpful if you could send me a few variant wf1 files: for example, a year's worth of monthly data, in one case with the starting date set to 1990:01, then with the start set to 1990:02, and so on. Hopefully this would enable us to track the bytes where the starting period is recorded. Allin Cottrell _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users