Things are not always what they seem. Running a second copy of an application shares the executables already in memory from the first copy, so the only extra memory load is for data areas. This will typically be only 1-2mb of memory if you are just viewing another data set in the Data Editor.

Regards, Jon Peck

-----Original Message----- From: Chris Evans [mailto:chris1@psyctc.org] Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 6:02 AM To: SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: [SPSSX-L] viewer for SAV files

On 25 Jul 2003 at 13:40, fvillamayor-research@ferrergr wrote:

> Just open another instance of SPSS. Another data editor will open on > your screen and you will be able to open another data file.

Yes. I believe I can do that with 11.0.1 but it seems an extremely resource intensive way of just getting to see the structure and contents of my SAV data files. I had thought of the Excel export but again, clumsy and very resource hungry.

Surely there's an easier way or a viewer someone has written?

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