Running Setup Files on Mac OS X

[Simon Kiss-3]

Dear colleagues,
I have downloaded an SPSS setup file and the accompanying data saved
in a .txt file.  I'm unfamiliar with this process however.
I downloaded the data from the ICPSR and they provided instructions as
to how to use this setup file for the windows environment and I've
tried to adapt it to my mac version about can't get it to work. The
instructions I'm following are here:
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/FAQ/0062.xml

I have opened up the setup file as a syntax file and tried to enter
this as the file name after the FILE LIST command
DATA LIST FILE="USERS/SIMON/DOWNLOADS/10317238/ICPSR_09386/
DS0001/09386-0001-Data-card_image.txt" /  RECORDS=15 TABLE
However, I get the following error message

 >Error # 34 in column 16. Text: USERS/SIMON/DOWNLOADS/10317238/
ICPSR_09386/DS
 >Invalid file specification syntax.
 >This command not executed.
DATASET CLOSE DataSet6.

Thank you!
Yours, Simon Kiss

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Simon J. Kiss, PhD
SSHRC and DAAD Post-Doctoral Fellow
John F. Kennedy Institute of North America Studies
Free University of Berlin
Lansstraße 7-9
14195 Berlin, Germany
Cell: [phone],
Web: http://www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/index.html

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[ViAnn Beadle]

It's hard to tell with the wrapping done within email, but it appears that your file name is a quoted string that spans lines. That won't work with the SPSS syntax parser. You either need to place that entire file name on one line or separately quote the split name and use the + sign to join them back together.

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Simon Kiss <[hidden email]> wrote:

Dear colleagues,
I have downloaded an SPSS setup file and the accompanying data saved
in a .txt file.  I'm unfamiliar with this process however.
I downloaded the data from the ICPSR and they provided instructions as
to how to use this setup file for the windows environment and I've
tried to adapt it to my mac version about can't get it to work. The
instructions I'm following are here:
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/FAQ/0062.xml

I have opened up the setup file as a syntax file and tried to enter
this as the file name after the FILE LIST command
DATA LIST FILE="USERS/SIMON/DOWNLOADS/10317238/ICPSR_09386/
DS0001/09386-0001-Data-card_image.txt" /  RECORDS=15 TABLE
However, I get the following error message

>Error # 34 in column 16. Text: USERS/SIMON/DOWNLOADS/10317238/
ICPSR_09386/DS
>Invalid file specification syntax.
>This command not executed.
DATASET CLOSE DataSet6.

Thank you!
Yours, Simon Kiss

*********************************
Simon J. Kiss, PhD
SSHRC and DAAD Post-Doctoral Fellow
John F. Kennedy Institute of North America Studies
Free University of Berlin
Lansstraße 7-9
14195 Berlin, Germany
Cell: [phone],
Web: http://www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/index.html

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