Syntax Files in PASW version 17

[Hoogendoorn, Adriaan]

Dear Statalist,

 

I noticed that since version 17 (maybe since version 16, but I don't know since I skipped that version) syntax files appear different in Windows Notepad than before.

I occasionally open a syntax file in Notepad to prevent myself from mixing up two almost identical versions of a syntax file.

But since version 17 all syntax is displayed in Notepad in one (very long) syntax lines. It seems as if the end-of-line symbols (CR-LF) are handled differently?

Do you know a solution for my problem?

 

Kind regards,

Adriaan Hoogendoorn

GGZ inGeest

[Hoogendoorn, Adriaan]

On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:34:35 +0200, Hoogendoorn, Adriaan
<[hidden email]> wrote:

>Dear Statalist,
>
>I noticed that since version 17 (maybe since version 16, but I don't know
since I skipped that version) syntax files appear different in Windows
Notepad than before.
>I occasionally open a syntax file in Notepad to prevent myself from mixing
up two almost identical versions of a syntax file.
>But since version 17 all syntax is displayed in Notepad in one (very long)
syntax lines. It seems as if the end-of-line symbols (CR-LF) are handled
differently?
>Do you know a solution for my problem?
>
>Kind regards,
>Adriaan Hoogendoorn
>GGZ inGeest
>

Apologies for addressing you as Statalist,

My multi-linguistical confusion seems to go further than mixing
DESCRIPTIVES with summarize and FREQUENCIES with tab

Kind regards,
Adriaan Hoogendoorn

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[Art Kendall]

I don't know about using Notepad for this purpose.  What I do when I want to adapt a set of syntax to a another purpose is to copy it into a different syntax window.
<file><new><syntax>

Art Kendall
Social Research Consultants

Hoogendoorn, Adriaan wrote:

Dear Statalist,

 

I noticed that since version 17 (maybe since version 16, but I don't know since I skipped that version) syntax files appear different in Windows Notepad than before.

I occasionally open a syntax file in Notepad to prevent myself from mixing up two almost identical versions of a syntax file.

But since version 17 all syntax is displayed in Notepad in one (very long) syntax lines. It seems as if the end-of-line symbols (CR-LF) are handled differently?

Do you know a solution for my problem?

 

Kind regards,

Adriaan Hoogendoorn

GGZ inGeest

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[SPSS Technical Support Notification]

Hi again Adriaan,

 

This is due to a Java default of using a single line-feed character to mark the end of a line, while Windows uses a line-feed and carriage-return. This affects both syntax and journal files beginning with Release 16. In Release 18.0, journal files are saved with LF/CR. Beginning with Release 18.0.1, syntax files should also be saved with both. Opening syntax files created with Releases 16-18.0.0 in 18.0.1 and saving them should resolve things for existing files.

 

Best,

 

Dave

 

David Nichols, Ph.D.
Master Statistician
SPSS, an IBM Company

 

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Subject: [SPSSX-L] Syntax Files in PASW version 17

Dear Statalist,

 

I noticed that since version 17 (maybe since version 16, but I don't know since I skipped that version) syntax files appear different in Windows Notepad than before.

I occasionally open a syntax file in Notepad to prevent myself from mixing up two almost identical versions of a syntax file.

But since version 17 all syntax is displayed in Notepad in one (very long) syntax lines. It seems as if the end-of-line symbols (CR-LF) are handled differently?

Do you know a solution for my problem?

 

Kind regards,

Adriaan Hoogendoorn

GGZ inGeest

[Marta Garcia-Granero]

Hi Adriaan

> Hoogendoorn, Adriaan wrote:
> Dear Statalist,
>
> I noticed that since version 17 (maybe since version 16, but I don't
> know since I skipped that version) syntax files appear different in
> Windows Notepad than before.
> I occasionally open a syntax file in Notepad to prevent myself from
> mixing up two almost identical versions of a syntax file.
> But since version 17 all syntax is displayed in Notepad in one (very
> long) syntax lines. It seems as if the end-of-line symbols (CR-LF) are
> handled differently?
> Do you know a solution for my problem?
>

I have just checked a syntax file with PASW 17 and you are right. I had
not noticed before because I never use Notepad to open syntax files, but
Metapad (a Notepad-like freeware program with better functionality than
Notepad, like sending the syntax file to SPSS/PASW to run it from
Metapad, better find/replace functions, several language packs...), and
Metapad handles the syntax files correctly. I recommend you to stop
using Notepad and switch to Metapad.

This is the link: http://liquidninja.com/metapad/download.html

HTH,
Marta GG


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[djhurio]

Try WordPad (component of Windows). Works fine for me.

Adriaan Hoogendoorn wrote

Dear Statalist,

I noticed that since version 17 (maybe since version 16, but I don't know since I skipped that version) syntax files appear different in Windows Notepad than before.
I occasionally open a syntax file in Notepad to prevent myself from mixing up two almost identical versions of a syntax file.
But since version 17 all syntax is displayed in Notepad in one (very long) syntax lines. It seems as if the end-of-line symbols (CR-LF) are handled differently?
Do you know a solution for my problem?

Kind regards,
Adriaan Hoogendoorn
GGZ inGeest

[Mike Pritchard]

This feels like partly an SPSS question and partly general statistics techniques, so I hope I’m not out of line asking here.

 

I ran a concept test that tested two flavors of a product.  There were a few other questions in between, but the second question was the same as the first other than different introduction text.  The results show some variation that is attributable to the preference for the flavor, but mostly a general shift down for the second question (mean shift about 0.3 on a 5 point scale).   It looks like there are some effects of general respondent fatigue, or perhaps just “I answered on the first, I’m less excited about the second”. 

 

I’d like to make use of both questions in some of the analysis, but I’m not sure how best to do this.  I have generated a variable showing whether the flavor was presented 1^st or 2^nd, and can use this in regression. 

 

But I’d like to do more, and to present the combined results in some way that is reasonably justifiable.  Would it be legitimate to create recoded variables with either the original value if the concept was presented first, or an increased number of the concept was second -  say adding 1 to the score randomly every 1 out of 3 responses?  Is there a proper way to handle this phenomenon?

 

Thanks
Mike

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