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Re: st: Two bugs with -usespss-
From
Sergiy Radyakin <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: Two bugs with -usespss-
Date
Tue, 4 Mar 2014 16:33:26 -0500
Dear Timothy, I confirm both problems. First one is a pure bug. Second
is caused by blocking behavior of SPSS, which blocks the file for
reading when it is open in SPSS. Closing the file in SPSS solves the
issue. Best, Sergiy Radyakin.
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 4:57 AM, Timothy Mak <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Sergiy and others who are interested,
>
> I just want to say I like -usespss- a lot. I've found 2 bugs which I hope can be addressed at some point.
>
> 1. When writing variable labels, -usespss- truncates them to 81 characters. However, Stata's limit is 80 characters. This can cause crashes in Stata, although usually not immediately.
> 2. I encountered this while using it on my 64-bit Windows 7 machine running 32-bit Stata: If I have a SPSS dataset opened by SPSS 20, and I try to open it at the same time using -usespss-, Stata immediately crashes.
>
> But thanks very much for writing -usespss-. It's been very useful.
>
> Timothy Mak
> School of Public Health
> The University of Hong Kong
>
> Tel (+852) 2819 9914
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