On Thu, 6 Feb 2014, Bob McCall wrote:

> Yes! The file exists and it's what should have appeared in the terminal.
> It's lg.out 73656 bytes. from the variable lg in
> bjg.gdt dataset. But why does it end up there and not in the terminal?

Thanks for following up. The issue must be the text encoding of the x13as
output (which is ISO-8859, not ASCII as x12a output was). Gretl's handling
of this was fixed in CVS, but just after the 1.9.14 release. So you'd get
correct behavior from a CVS build, or by waiting for the 1.9.15 release.

Allin Cottrell

> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 5 Feb 2014, Allin Cottrell wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 5 Feb 2014, Bob McCall wrote:
>>>
>>>> I did pretty much what Jack did. x13as works just fine running
>>>> testairline.spc in the install dir. And I did get plot output in Gretl.
>> In
>>>> Gretl, I highlighted a series and with gui selected x12arima-analysis
>> under
>>>> variable tab. Just clicked ok to the next menu. Graphical output was
>>>> produced and a text widget but no text.
>>>
>>> What was the name of the series you selected?
>>
>> Sorry, one more question. Suppose the series was called "x" (please
>> substitute the correct name). Then what do you get from the shell
>> command
>>
>> ls -al ~/.gretl/x12arima/x.*
>>
>> ?
>>
>> In particular we're looking for the file x.out in that directory,
>> and wondering -- if it exists -- how big it is.
>>
>> Allin Cottrell
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