Date:         Fri, 20 Jun 2003 16:17:04 -0400
Reply-To:     Mark Casazza <mark.casazza@domino1.cuny.edu>
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From:         Mark Casazza <mark.casazza@domino1.cuny.edu>
Subject:      Re: LOOP / XSAVE command hanging
Comments: To: Sally Zitzer <sallyz@u.washington.edu>
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Sally, do you by any chance have an XP machine with an unpatched
version of SPSS but with the rest of your normal institutional
software/network?  Does it do the same thing?

Mark Casazza
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The City University of New York
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-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU]On Behalf
Of
Sally Zitzer
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 4:06 PM
To: SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: LOOP / XSAVE command hanging


Kylie,

  I *DO* get the same problem you do, you are not alone. I run Windows
XP
with SPSS 11.5.2.   I tried  your syntax.

  After awhile I got a message "The processor has terminated due to an
unrecoverable error at 0x64f0075f - writing to 0x00000004.

  At the bottom of all the SPSS windows it says "SPSS Processor is
unavailable".  The data editor shows A, B, C, D, E, .... U and the
Variable View is hosed, the labels along the top are A, B, C, D,
.... J.

  This time I was able to close SPSS without using Task Manager. *BUT*
I
have other syntax with XSAVE in a LOOP which does similar weird things
and forces me to use the Task Manager to shut down SPSS.

       Sally

Sally Zitzer, Statistical Software Consultant
Computing & Communications
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Kylie Lange wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am having problems running a simple LOOP with XSAVE when using
data
> entered in the Data Editor. I am using 11.5.2.1 on Windows NT.
>
> The following syntax works smoothly:
>
> DATA LIST LIST /sla(F8.2) p1(F8.1) p2(F8.1) p3(F8.1) p4(F8.1)
nb(F8.0).
> BEGIN DATA
> 10012 0 1 0 0 1
> 10025 .5 0 .5 0 3
> 10045 .4 .3 0 .3 4
> 10055 0 0 0 1 1
> END DATA.
>
> LOOP cnt=1 TO nb.
> XSAVE OUTFILE='c:\temp\temp.sav' /KEEP sla TO p4.
> END LOOP.
> EXE.
> GET FILE='c:\temp\temp.sav'.
>
> However, if I run the DATA LIST section to generate the file, then
go to
> File > Save As and save the file to some location before going on
and
> running the LOOP syntax, the LOOP syntax never completes. The
processor
> status stalls at 'Running XSAVE...' and the only way to stop it is
to kill
> SPSS through the NT task manager. It does the same thing regardless
of
> where the file is saved to (local drive, network drives...).
>
> Am I missing something simple in my understanding of what's going
on, or is
> this some kind of network or system issue?
>
> Thanks!
> Kylie.
>