Re: [Gretl-users] mysterious error discrepancy between two systems

On Thu, 15 Oct 2015, Sven Schreiber wrote:

> > On my local copy of the workfile the relevant value of the obs is > 0.870609. After transferring the full 350KB gdt file to the server this > value somehow becomes the problematic 4.90325e-310! All the other values > are fine (it seems). > > I thought it was file corruption, but the issue is reproducible after > transferring and overwriting on the server several times. How are you transferring the file to the server? A good test would be to check the md5sum at both ends. I mean something like this: ivanhoe:~$ md5sum xm729pmi.gdt b9d0d2e13f6547f4ba16e5c9e2626a2a xm729pmi.gdt ivanhoe:~$ scp xm729pmi.gdt ac.wfu.edu:./ ivanhoe:~$ ssh ac.wfu.edu amsterdam:~$ md5sum xm729pmi.gdt b9d0d2e13f6547f4ba16e5c9e2626a2a xm729pmi.gdt If the checksums differ your file transfer mechanism is broken.