For test purposes I deleted all outfile.xxx  as suggested (most of them exept one file are deleted anyway when I exit gretl im MS-Windows).  Either I will get the "common outfile error" aigain ore following new error occures:
sprintf: format string is missing
*** error in function sanitize_url, line 1
 string dqu = sprintf("\"")
 called by function build_parms
 called by function dbnomics_get_multiple


Klaus

Am 25.06.2022 um 09:40 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti:
On Fri, 24 Jun 2022, Sven Schreiber wrote:

OK, I got the error now. Here's my preliminary theory, based on the
following error message from gretl together with the contents of my
dotdir (C:/...blabla..../AppData/Roaming/gretl):

File exists
*** error in function dbnomics_bundle_get_data, line 33
outfile --buffer=tracestr

Apparently on Windows the "outfile --buffer" variant is working via
tempfiles. I'm seeing a lot of files in the dotdir on the pattern of
"outfile.3419N1", and indeed most of them contain the text "trying
append..." which comes from the outfile block.

This happens on Linux too. The difference is that those temporary files should, in theory, be deleted once you exit gretl. Apparently, for some reason this is not happening on windows, so some sort of name collision occurs.

I have no way of checking atm (and besides, I don't have a windows machine), but if this conjecture is true, it follows that (a) cleaning these files "by hand" should be an effective remedy for the time being and (b) this bug will be easy to fix in time for the next release, which is due soon.


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  Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
  Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)

  Universitą Politecnica delle Marche
  (formerly known as Universitą di Ancona)

  r.lucchetti@univpm.it
  http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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