Date:         Mon, 2 Feb 1998 19:23:43 -0800
Reply-To:     "Marc R. Feldesman" <feldesmanm@pdx.edu>
Sender:       "SPSSX(r) Discussion" <SPSSX-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Marc R. Feldesman" <feldesman@IBM.NET>
Organization: Flying Pig Software
Subject:      Re: SPSS 8.0 printing, crashes, etc.

John.  I've encountered similar weirdities {?} with SPSS
8.0.  I think I've discovered the cause.  From the
description of your machine, I'd suspect you are running OSR
2.1 with USB extensions.  If so, it is the USB extensions
supplied with Windows that are the real culprit here, not
anything SPSS is doing.  I ran into similar problems with
SAS (I couldn't even install SAS without a SAS-supplied
patch), a number of Symantec Products, and one vertical
market application.
 
To determine whether or not USB is the source of your
problems, go into Control Panel, System, Device View, and
look for a category called "Other Devices".  If it is there,
open the other devices and see of you have USB drivers
installed.  If you do, I think you can simply disable them
(unless you actually own USB devices) and see if that solves
your problem.  It isn't a long-term solution, but it might
remedy this problem in the short run until SPSS comes up
with a permanent fix (it really isn't SPSS' problem, but
Microsoft isn't gonna fix it.
 
Good luck.
John A. Grossbohlin wrote in message
<34cd56c5.13103052@news.ulster.net>...
>I've been having problems printing with SPSS 8.0. At times
sending
>either a selection or "all visible" to the printer results
in little
>more than a page feed. I notice that the number of copies
is grayed
>out when this happens. (Printing is handled through a Novel
network.)
>
>I've also had problems selecting more than one section from
the viewer
>and printing it, e.g., the last half of the output that
appears in the
>viewer. I haven't figured out a way to, say, select from a
given point
>to the end of the document...
>
>I've also been getting a lot of catastrophic errors that
shut SPSS
>down. Sometimes Help is available and other times it isn't.
Also, is
>there some undocumented maximum length on syntax?  I built
a syntax
>file that contained multiple ODBC database calls to create
.sav files
>from Access data and the ODBC refused to run when I got up
to about
>890 lines. Mind you, I wasn't trying to run all these
sections as one
>block... the last section was little more than a dozen
lines and it
>absolutely refused to run. The viewer showed four lines of
code being
>read and then it quit.
>
>I'm running a P233 with 128 meg of RAM with WIN 95 and
Office 97 and
>haven't had problems with any other apps.--including a
complex Access
>2.0 evaluation database that I support. (SPSS resides on
the C:
>drive.) Has anyone noticed conflicts with SPSS and Norton
Antivirus or
>with UPS management software that could be causing me
>problems--removing the TSRs doesn't seem to help...
>
>Any tips or other feedback would be appreciated as I have a
huge
>amount of programming to write and data to run by mid
February and
>these problems are slowing me up big time!  Going back to
6.1 isn't an
>option as the ODBC quit working when I installed Access
97...
>
>John
>...feeling like I'm on the bleeding edge of technology
again!