Hi Allin, thanks for the help, I kind of freaked out when GRETL crashed on my new expensive machine, I will look at the data and see if something is corrupt. I have had several emails from others and my confidence is high that it should work and that this is some specific error with my data.
Larry Chisesi On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu> wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Jun 2010, Lawrence Chisesi wrote: > >> Hello, I have just purchased a new home PC which came with windows 7 >> and an intel 64 bit CPU. I am pretty experienced with GRETL, been >> running it on my 32 bit laptop for some time. I downloaded the May 2 >> version onto my new system and I can load a file in from Excel, but >> when I do something, like sort by a field, it crashes without any real >> error message. Is there anything I need to do to get it working on >> this system? > > I'm not able to test on Windows 7, or any 64-bit Windows system, > and offhand I have no idea why there should be a problem running > gretl on 64-bit Windows. There's supposed to be a 32-bit > compatibility layer. > > It might help gather relevant information if you run gretlw32.exe > with the "--debug" option flag, and note exactly what you are > doing when the program crashes. When you say "sort by a field", do > you mean sorting the contents of the main window by clicking on > the column titles? That's a GTK operation, but I can't find > reports of problems with GTK on 64-bit Windows by googling. > > Allin Cottrell > > _______________________________________________ > Gretl-users mailing list > Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu > http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users >
