From tlumley at u.washington.edu  Wed Oct 12 01:08:49 2005
From: tlumley at u.washington.edu (Thomas Lumley)
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 16:08:49 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Rd] 8 char labels in read.spss
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On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Knut Krueger wrote:
>
> I found a definition of the SPSS files.
> http://www.wotsit.org/download.asp?f=spssdata
> but they recommend to use the spss input/output dll to ensure upward
> compatbility
>

"Well, they would say that, wouldn't they" (Rice-Davis 1963)

Unfortunately, that document is an old file format. It doesn't describe 
record 7 subtype 13, which is where the long variable names live.

 	-thomas



[Rd] 8 char labels in read.spss
Thomas Lumley