See if this works on your version. get file . . . N of cases 3.

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Raynald Levesque wrote: > Hi > > I assume you do not want to run the syntax because you are dealing with > large data files. Why not run the syntax on a small sample of the data? > > Regards > > Raynald Levesque rlevesque@videotron.ca > Visit my SPSS site: http://pages.infinit.net/rlevesqu/ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU]On Behalf Of > Tony Baglioni > Sent: September 2, 2003 10:43 AM > To: SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU > Subject: EDIT command > > > Older versions of SPSS had an EDIT command that could be inserted into a > syntax file. This command would allow SPSS to check all the syntax for > errors without actually doing the analyses. I see in the Syntax Reference > Guide that this command is still present but "not available on all operating > systems." I'm using V11.5 and the command is not functional. Is there some > other way of checking syntax without running the proc? > > Thanks. > Tony >