Date:         Tue, 21 Jan 1997 14:51:27 GMT
Reply-To:     David Nichols <nichols@SPSS.COM>
Sender:       "SPSSX(r) Discussion" <SPSSX-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         David Nichols <nichols@SPSS.COM>
Organization: SPSS, Inc.
Subject:      Re: Reading Unix data files in Windows

In article <5c14fj$1ck@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu>,
Gonzalo Kmaid <grk3@cornell.edu> wrote:
>In article <32E29B94.4191@vt.edu>, bart67@vt.edu says...
>>
>>I have a data file created with SPSS for Unix that I need to use in
>SPSS for Windows 6.1. Can someone tell me how to do this? I tried just
>adding a .SAV extention, but that didn't work (SPSS/Win complained the
>file wasn't a valid data file).
>>Many thanks, Bart Craig
>>Department of Psychology
>>Virginia Tech
>
>Bart,
>
>In your unix version of spss you need to create a portable file to be
>read by spss windows. Remember to specify ascii when you ftp the file
>(yes! spss portables are ascii files...:-). To create the portable you
>use
>
>EXPORT OUTFILE='/dir/myfile.por'
>
>When reading the file in spss win, choose the extension .por in the
>dialog box. Good luck.
>
>Gonzalo Kmaid
>
>--
>Field of Development Sociology
>Cornell University
>Ithaca, New York 14853
 
SPSS portable files are a strange kind of ASCII, not standard ASCII. As
far as I know, they travel just fine via ftp using either ASCII or binary
mode. I personally always use binary.
 
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