Dear Donald,
thank you for the answer. Actually I have to develop
tool which reads MTW/MTP files without using other
products like MINITAB. I found some information about
MTW
(http://www.minitab.com/support/answers/answer.aspx?ID=289)
but it is not enough.
Best,
Svetlin Grancharov
--- Donald Burrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> {Original post on edstat; reply cross-posted to
> MINITAB list.
>
> 1. *.MTW files are written in the machine language
> of the computer used
> to write them, and are in general not readable on
> othe computers, even
> by MINITAB. Which is why *.MTP files were invented.
> ("MTW" = "MiniTab Worksheet"; "MTP" = "MiniTab
> worksheet, Portable".)
>
> 2. *.MTP files are written in ASCII characters, and
> designing a file
> reader should not be difficult. But why do you want
> to? Hard to
> imagine a reason that wouldn't be better served by
> using MINITAB itself.
> A free copy good for (I think) 30 days can be
> downloaded from the
> MINITAB web site, www.minitab.com, where you can
> also find pricing
> information. The student version is inexpensive, if
> price is an object.
>
> If your circumstances require a special file reader
> (for reasons that
> you have not described to us), use the temporary
> version of MINITAB to
> retrieve some of its stored data files (which will
> be in *.MTW format
> for your computer), save them as portable files
> (which will give you
> some *.MTP files to play with), use the WRITe
> command in MINITAB to
> produce a raw data file with which to compare the
> corresponding *.MTP
> file, use the PRINt command in MINITAB to produce a
> listing of the data
> AND the column labels (which are retained in the
> *.MTP files but not in
> the *.DAT files produced by WRITe), and you should
> be able to deduce
> what you need to know.
>
> And if you want more details, send a query to the
> MINITAB list, which is
> read from time to time by MINITAB staff.
>
> On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Svetlin Grancharov wrote:
>
> > Does somebody have MINITAB MTW or MTP file format
> specs.
> > I have to implement MINITAB MTW or MTP files
> reader but I do not have
> > any documents about these formats.
> >
> > I will appreciate all clues you can give me.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Svetlin Grancharov
>
>
>
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