Re: PSPP-BUG: SPSS19 error message after reading an PSPP-Dataset (psppire.exe 0.7.6-g26ff6f) and newer

[Ben Pfaff]

Curt Reinhold <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi, very often, we receive an error message, if we read an PSPP Dataset with
> SPSS18 or SPSS19:
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> (An unknown error has terminated communication with the processor…)
>
> After it, SPSS stops and we have to cancel the process by Strg+Alt+Del.
>
> Or, in other words: Reading and modifying of UTF-8 data sets in PSPP destroys
> the data format, so that we can´t read it in SPSS 19 (or 18) thereafter.
>
> Surprisingly it is possible, to “repair” the dataset by loading und saving it
> in SPSS 11.

Can you pass along one PSPP-generated .sav file that yields this
behavior?  I guess that you can delete all of the data (except
perhaps for a single case) and still get the same behavior.

Thanks,

Ben.
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