testing pspp on vista

[Jason Stover]

The mail list has lacked notes on testing pspp on Vista.  I just
watched someone try to install it on Vista. Here are a couple of notes:

1. Installer hung twice, then finished on the third attempt.
2. The user had already installed Cygwin.
3. Upon trying to start pspp, I saw the following
text in a box:

     A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit. Please
     open /tmp/XWin.log for more information.

     Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
     Release: 6.8.99.901-4
     Contact: address@hidden
     XWin was started with the following command-line:

     /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error

A search failed to find any file called XWin.log.

4. Trying to start PSPP through icon in the start menu failed.
A message from another program appeared, saying:

  A program on your computer wants to accept incoming connections from
  the Internet. Before it can, you must decide whether to allow it
  access. To protect your computer, you should only allow programs that
  you trust.

  About this Program:
  Program: XWin.exe
  Location: C:\Cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\XWin.exe
  Recommendation: Unknown program

(I thought this was kind of funny.)

5. After explicitly allowing X to accept incoming connections, pspp
started after about 2 attempts. For the failed attempts, the icon appeared
briefly on the bottom toolbar, and then vanished. 

After psppire started, we typed in a simple data set and ran FREQUENCIES
successfully

It all ran very slowly.

-Jason