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Re: pspp interactive mode broken


From: Ben Pfaff
Subject: Re: pspp interactive mode broken
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2021 10:42:56 -0800

Hmm. A null byte. I will take a look at related code later today to see if I can figure it out. It hasn't appeared for me (on GNU/Linux).

On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 7:23 AM Alan Mead <amead2@alanmead.org> wrote:
Yes, if i blow up the screenshot, I think I see four zeros. I don't know of any way to copy that character or zoom the interface.



-Alan


On 3/6/2021 11:14 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
I cannot quite read the digits in those boxes. Are they 0000?

On Sat, Mar 6, 2021, 8:45 PM Alan Mead <amead2@alanmead.org> wrote:
Also, FWIW, the Windows output contains a strange character (vertical tab?):



On 3/6/2021 7:36 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
How very odd!

I do use the interactive mode occasionally, for testing.

There are two different ways that interactive mode can work: with the
"readline" library for command editing, or without it.  I tried both
of these and couldn't reproduce it on GNU/Linux.

More and more, we need a Windows developer, if Windows is going to be
supported well.

On Sat, Mar 6, 2021 at 5:22 PM Alan Mead <amead@alanmead.org> wrote:
If I've ever used the interactive mode of PSPP, I cannot recall. I think it's broken (at least in windows). It reads the first character of each command as a 'p':

G:\projects\pspp>"C:\Program Files (x86)\PSPP\bin\pspp.exe"
PSPP is free software and you are welcome to distribute copies of it
under certain conditions; type "show copying." to see the conditions.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY for PSPP; type "show warranty." for details.
GNU pspp 1.4.0-gc3c044
PSPP> exit
pxit
error: Unknown command `pxit'.
PSPP>

PSPP> exit
pxit

error: Unknown command `pxit'.
PSPP>
^C
G:\projects\pspp>"C:\Program Files (x86)\PSPP\bin\pspp.exe"
PSPP is free software and you are welcome to distribute copies of it
under certain conditions; type "show copying." to see the conditions.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY for PSPP; type "show warranty." for details.
GNU pspp 1.4.0-gc3c044
PSPP> show license
phow license
error: Unknown command `phow'.
PSPP>

PSPP>  show license
pshow license

error: Unknown command `pshow'.
PSPP>

PSPP>




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0. There is a game.
1. You can't win.
2. You can't break even.
3. You can't even get out of the game.



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Alan D. Mead, Ph.D.
President, Talent Algorithms Inc.

science + technology = better workers

http://www.alanmead.org

The irony of this ... is that the Internet is
both almost-infinitely expandable, while at the
same time constrained within its own pre-defined
box. And if that makes no sense to you, just
reflect on the existence of Facebook. We have
the vastness of the internet and yet billions
of people decided to spend most of them time
within a horribly designed, fake-news emporium
of a website that sucks every possible piece of
personal information out of you so it can sell it
to others. And they see nothing wrong with that.

-- Kieren McCarthy, commenting on why we are not 
                    all using IPv6

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