>Record number: 1 Starting column: 2 Record length: 1024 Look at the FILE HANDLE COMMAND in particular the LRECL subcommand... You need to give it an LRECL > 1024 perhaps about 3000 (you do the counting!)

>HOWEVER -- I think that 6.1 does not allow (A30), so it has been Richard, This is simply not a correct statement (the limit is A255 as always!)

But I would say doing Free file input on such a file is simply misguided!

Neila

Richard F Ulrich wrote in message <7g04pk$eo8$2@usenet01.srv.cis.pitt.edu>... >Bhuban Pandey (bhubanp@ADMIN.STEDWARDS.EDU) wrote: >: Hi. >: I'm trying to read a data file with the following syntax (using SPSS 6.1). >: But, I get many warning messages (see at the bottom) causing the program >: to stop. I'm wondering whether you have any solutions. >: Please help. >: Thanks-----------------------Bhuban > >: 1 0 data list file='csesp99.txt' free >: 2 0 /1 crs (a12) fac (a32) >: 3 0 q1 (a30) q2 (a30) q3 (a30) q4 (a30) q5 (a30) > > < snip, rest of output > > > - since the messages that it gave you are all 'warnings', you >should be able to do a FREQUENCIES to see what you have -- either >shorten your var-list and file, or SET the number of acceptable >warnings to be a large number. > >HOWEVER -- I think that 6.1 does not allow (A30), so it has been >truncating all of your variables at the maximum which is >probably (A8). > > >-- >Rich Ulrich, wpilib+@pitt.edu >======