Problems with SPSS

[Salbod]

Dear Friends,

                I have two annoying SPSS 15 problems: Errors in Output file
are in German (everything else is in English) and Window Installer is called
when I want to generate any graphic output.

                I've re-installed SPSS 15, but the problems remained. Has
anyone seen anything like this?



                Any help will be appreciated.



Stephen Salbod, Pace University-NYC, USA

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[Jason Burke]

Hi Stephen,

Use the following command to see what locale the system is set to:

SHOW LOCALE .

See if the locale is set to something other than US english. If that
is the case, use the follwing command to set the locale such that the
messages in the output will be in english.

To change the locale, use the following command:

SET LOCALE = "en_US" .

Cheers,


Jason.

On 4/17/08, Stephen Salbod <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Dear Friends,
>
>                I have two annoying SPSS 15 problems: Errors in Output file
> are in German (everything else is in English) and Window Installer is called
> when I want to generate any graphic output.
>
>                I've re-installed SPSS 15, but the problems remained. Has
> anyone seen anything like this?
>
>
>
>                Any help will be appreciated.
>
>
>
> Stephen Salbod, Pace University-NYC, USA
>
> =====================
> To manage your subscription to SPSSX-L, send a message to
> [hidden email] (not to SPSSX-L), with no body text except the
> command. To leave the list, send the command
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>

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[Peck, Jon]

If your SPSS output language is set to German, all the output text should be in German.  SET OLANG=English or the equivalent in Edit/Options would clear this up.

If only error text is in German, that suggests that the error message file(s), mainly spss.err, in the en\windows subdirectory of your SPSS installation is the German version.  I don't know how that could have happened, but you might look to see whether the English one is in some other language subdirectory.  On my system, the size of the English spss.err is 668160.  All the others are slightly different:

671744 Nov  9  2006 ./de/windows/spss.err
668160 Nov 22  2006 ./en/windows/spss.err
671232 Nov  9  2006 ./es/windows/spss.err
673280 Nov  9  2006 ./fr/windows/spss.err
671232 Nov  9  2006 ./it/windows/spss.err
592896 Nov  9  2006 ./ja/windows/spss.err
663552 Sep  7  2006 ./ko/windows/spss.err
677376 Sep  7  2006 ./pl/windows/spss.err
669696 Sep  7  2006 ./ru/windows/spss.err
656384 Nov  9  2006 ./zh_cn/windows/spss.err
657408 Sep  7  2006 ./zh_tw/windows/spss.err

If you can't find the English one, contact SPSS Technical Support to see if they can help.

HTH,
Jon Peck

-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Stephen Salbod
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Subject: [SPSSX-L] Problems with SPSS

Dear Friends,

                I have two annoying SPSS 15 problems: Errors in Output file
are in German (everything else is in English) and Window Installer is called
when I want to generate any graphic output.

                I've re-installed SPSS 15, but the problems remained. Has
anyone seen anything like this?



                Any help will be appreciated.



Stephen Salbod, Pace University-NYC, USA

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