thanks. what is the latest official version you'd suggest installing on a
linux machine?
From: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]>
To: Mogerman Rob <[email protected]>
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 5, 2016 5:13 PM
Subject: Re: translate syntax
On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 04:04:16PM +0000, Mogerman Rob wrote:
> Hi - I'm a very novice user and I'm trying to turn a .sav file into a .csv
> file. It looks like the translate command should be able to do what I'm
> wanting but I get an error. I get a file from a vendor called xxxx.sav and I
> need to turn the file into a .csv so I can process it for other software.
> The commands I'm trying are....
>
>
> GET FILE="xxxx.sav".SAVE TRANSLATE OUTFILE='xxxx1.csv'
> /TYPE=CSV /MAP /REPLACE
> /FIELDNAMES /CELLS=LABELS.
> The list file shows...
> 05 Jul 2016 -
>Page 1 GNU pspp 0.6.2 -
>i686-pc-linux-gnu make_csv.psp:2: error: SAVE TRANSLATE is unimplemented.
I guess you are using a very old version of PSPP.
New enough versions do implement SAVE TRANSLATE. With these versions,
you can also do this from the command prompt:
pspp-convert file.sav file.csv
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