[Gretl-users] Re: 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.