Re: opening datafiles directly with psppire

[Ben Pfaff]

Dana Williams <address@hidden> writes:

> I have a question about running psppire on Ubuntu... I've
> associated all my .sav files with psppire, so I can open PSPP
> by clicking a datafile listed on a disk (thru the usual
> GUI). The problem is that it does not open the actual file,
> just the program (so I then have to open my datafile from the
> PSPP menu). Am I wrong or is there not the built-in ability to
> pass any parameters to psppire for opening a datafile? It's
> only one additional step, but I was just wondering if there's a
> way to automatically do this?

When I tried this, just now, it worked OK for me.  We introduced
this feature between versions 0.7.0 and 0.7.1, so if you are
using PSPP 0.6.2, it won't work.
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Ben Pfaff 
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