[Gretl-users] Re: Export to Stata fails

Am 11.04.2019 um 19:40 schrieb Allin Cottrell: > 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. Thanks Allin. I have some anecdotal evidence that it works better now. (@Artur:) Since Stata is important for many people or for collaboration perhaps this would be worth a tweet ?