Re: [Dorset] PSPP

2010-02-13 Thread Terry Coles
On Saturday 13 Feb 2010, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > The http://jalvesaq.googlepages.com/sav2dat.html shell script can > probably be altered to give you the output you'd prefer if it's already > making the content available, IOW doing the manual meld for you if it's > mechanical. I'm sure it could, bu

Re: [Dorset] Git et al

2010-02-13 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Tim, > Thanks for your feedback. Bazaar and Mercurial do seem pretty closely > matched in terms in approach, features and user-friendliness. Yes, the Python developers plumped for Mercurial over Bazaar but not for any particular technical reason. http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0374/#

Re: [Dorset] PSPP

2010-02-13 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, > The shell script saves everything as three files; the data in text > form (space separated, with a variable number of spaces between each > value) and the variables as text and as html. > > The output of both of these is good in that you can get at the data, > but not brilliant for a