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

Am 15.10.2015 um 16:43 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti: Well, no -- it turns out that it has nothing to do with any functions and numerics (though it's also nice to have that sorted out along the way). It's apparently a problem of dataset handling, but it's kind of strange: 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. However, the problem goes away when I export the specific series to a new gdt file which holds only that series. After the transfer to the server, the value 0.870609 shows up like it should in the small datafile. The problem also disappears when I save the full dataset to a new binary-format .gdtb file. However, it doesn't help to save the full dataset in a new file, but in the standard gdt format. Ok, so I know how to work around this problem, but I'm curious what Allin will investigate in this respect! thanks, sven