Date:         Thu, 3 Oct 2002 12:29:04 +0400
Reply-To:     LRS <lrs@unn.ac.ru>
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From:         LRS <lrs@unn.ac.ru>
Subject:      how to close the file via syntax
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Hi,
I use the syntax of kind that I found in Raynald's site (see below). I need
to run it several times in a syntax file and I whant to use the same
temporary file (c:\temp.sav) each time. However, when I run this syntax
second time (starting from "COMPUTE nobreak...", without redefining data)
the error occures (Error # 62 in column 19. Text: c:\temp.sav >The file is
already in use.) I suspect that I have to close somehow the file c:\temp.sav
to proceed, but how to do that?

Thanks in advance.
Anton Balabanov,
Chair of Applied Statistics, Assistant
University of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia


DATA LIST LIST /x y.
BEGIN DATA
2 5
3 3
4 4
END DATA.
LIST.

COMPUTE nobreak=1.
AGGREGATE OUTFILE='c:\temp.sav'
/BREAK=nobreak
/maxy=MAX(y).
MATCH FILES FILE=*
/TABLE='c:\temp.sav'
/BY=nobreak.
COMPUTE z=x/maxy.
EXECUTE.