I've attached a REXX macro that will terminate SPSS files (add a period at the end of each command). It works under CMS XEDIT and under THE, a freeware XEDIT/KEDIT clone. It should work under KEDIT as well, but I haven't tried it. THE is available for UNIX and DOS and will run in 32 bit mode under WIN95. It's a very powerful editor, I'd recommend it. See http://www.lightlink.com/hessling/ for further information.

As long as the syntax files are properly terminated and the input/output statements have been appropriately modified, they should run fine under SPSS for Windows.

In article <349cf880.2585462@news.dircon.co.uk>, lenkerWEEDS@dircon.co.uk wrote: >James Carvalho wrote: > >>Under SPSS UNIX, you will need to convert your data files from the >>native SPSS format to an SPSS portable format. Then transfer them >>in ASCII mode to your Windows machine. The portable files can now be >>opened by SPSS for Windows. Hope this helps. > >I have a similar problem. I have some SPSS files in the following >format: > > F_Name.sps > F_Name.dat > F_Name.exp > >As far as I understand it, I am meant to take the SPSS Syntax file >(F_Name.sps) and run it in SPSS to read the data. I have one single >indicator that the syntax file was written for Unix as the path to the >the .dat file is a Unix path. Now, the problem is that I do not have >access to SPSS on Unix. I tried running the Syntax File in Windows >SPSS (after changing the file paths to Windows) but this gave me a >huge number of syntax errors. Is there a utility that will change the >syntax file to Windows format? Do you know of any other possibility to >read the data? Any help would be greatly appreciated. > >Hans > > >>-------------------- Original message ----------------------------- >>Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 14:30:54 EST >>From: Tom Madden <MADDENT@DARLA.BADM.SC.EDU> >>Subject: Conversion to windows >> >>Is it possible to run spss files created for UNIX in windows? >> >>I would appreciate any advice on converting the files >> >>Tom Madden > > /* "PERIOD.THE"/"PERIOD XEDIT A" */ /* terminate lines in an SPSS program with an period */ /* By John Hendrickx <J.Hendrickx@maw.kun.nl> */ /* Department of Sociology, Nijmegen University, The Netherlands */ /* For use in XEDIT under VM/CMS */ /* or in THE under (protected mode) DOS, Windows, OS/2 */ /* and Unix systems that support REXX macros */ /* See <http://www.lightlink.com/hessling/> for info on THE */ trace o "SET AUTOSAVE OFF" "SET LINEND OFF" "LOCATE :1" pending=0 "extract /size" do i=1 to size.1 "extract /curline/length" if substr(curline.3,1,1)^=' ' | pending=1 then do "DOWN 1" "extract /curline/length" content=length(strip(curline.3)) frstchar=substr(curline.3,1,1) nonblnk=substr(strip(curline.3),1,2) if content=0 | frstchar^=' ' | nonblnk='/*' then do call punct pending=0 end else pending=1 end else "DOWN 1" end "TOP" exit

punct: trace o "UP 1" "extract /curline/length" comment=pos('/*',curline.3) if comment<=1 then point=length.1 else point=length(strip(substr(curline.3,1,comment-1))) if substr(curline.3,point,1)^='.' then "REPLACE" insert('.',curline.3,point) "DOWN 1" return