Re: [Gretl-users] close button cosmetics

2007-09-18 Thread ab . news at laposte . net
Allin Cottrell a écrit : > On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Sven Schreiber wrote: > > >> It takes the entire width of the window, at the bottom. >> Is that really necessary? > I don't think I have any real objection to that. > Anyone else have thoughts on this? > > Allin. I agree with Sven! Anyway, the

[Gretl-users] installation problems

2007-09-18 Thread Summers , Peter
Dear all, I use gretl in my introductory econometrics class, and one of my students is experiencing a strange (imho) problem installing it on her computer. In the course of trying to help her out I've discovered that there seems to be something wrong with the gretl-1.6.5.exe file on the windows

Re: [Gretl-users] installation problems

2007-09-18 Thread Sven Schreiber
Summers, Peter schrieb: > there seems to be something wrong with the gretl-1.6.5.exe file on the > windows page. After saving this file to disk, it turns out to only be > about 21kB instead of 9MB. You actually only downloaded the sourceforge download (html) page I guess. I bet you did a right-c

Re: [Gretl-users] installation problems

2007-09-18 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Summers, Peter wrote: > I use gretl in my introductory econometrics class, and one of my > students is experiencing a strange (imho) problem installing it on her > computer. In the course of trying to help her out I've discovered that > there seems to be something wrong with t

RE: [Gretl-users] installation problems

2007-09-18 Thread Summers , Peter
Allin & Sven, Thanks for your prompt responses! You're right, I was right-clicking on the .exe file & saving that. Downloading through SourceForge works ok. But -- it is in fact the current snapshot. Yesterday I saved a copy of that (http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/gretl/gretl_install.exe) to her

[Gretl-users] (no subject)

2007-09-18 Thread ab . news
Allin Cottrell a écrit : > On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, ab.news(a)laposte.net wrote: > > > >> 2. On the "Statistical tables" window, try to introduce 0.2 as >> the right-tail probability for the normal distribution. As I'm >> using the french version the point obviously doesn't work and I >> chan

[Gretl-users] decimal separator bug

2007-09-18 Thread Sven Schreiber
Hi, a nasty because potentially unnoticed bug just bit me with gretl 1.6.5 on a German windows: Gretl was set to use the German decimal separator (comma) and so I typed "v2 = v1 / 98,3" in the define-new-variable dialog. However, gretl effectively seems to have calculated v1/98 without the fract

Re: [Gretl-users] decimal separator bug

2007-09-18 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Sven Schreiber wrote: > a nasty because potentially unnoticed bug just bit me with gretl 1.6.5 > on a German windows: > > Gretl was set to use the German decimal separator (comma) and so I typed > "v2 = v1 / 98,3" in the define-new-variable dialog. > > However, gretl effecti

Re: [Gretl-users] (no subject)

2007-09-18 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, ab.news wrote: > Allin Cottrell a écrit : > > Sorry, you'll have to explain that a bit more. > > > Yes, you're right. And your tests too! But to reproduce the bug > you need to display the 2 windows in continuity. So, open at > first the "Statistical tables" window, mak