On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, jack wrote: I think this is basically a good idea (though I'd tend to go for 16 characters, not 32, for regular variable names). The main problem is with the various output-printing functions. For both console output and the output that goes to gui windows, everything is in a fixed format. Many of the output functions would have to be redesigned to avoid stuff breaking over lines given a wider variable name field. One possible redesign that would save width on numeric output fields would be to print all numbers such as coefficients and standard errors in a fixed width, as opposed to gretl's current practice of using decimal-aligned numbers printed to a given number of significant figures, using scientific notation only when absolutely needed. But I think gretl's current numeric output is nice and easy to read -- you can see the relative magnitude of coefficients at a glance. That said, I don't claim that gretl's current regression output is perfect and I'm certainly willing to consider proposals for redesign, within an 80-column format. Allin Cottrell

On Sat, 21 Jan 2006, Peter Davidoff wrote: Probably a good idea. The gretl installer comes with the files wgnuplot.exe and freetype6.dll, which are both placed in the main gretl installation directory (by default c:\userdata\gretl). It should not be necessary to make any manual changes in paths to programs. One possible scenario that can cause this sort of problem: (a) student installs gretl; (b) student then drags the whole gretl folder to some new location. This will break things, since the actual paths will no longer correspond with those written into the Windows registry on installation. Allin Cottrell