Syntax file filled with weird characters??

[J McClure]

I opened my saved syntax file today and the file is filled with weird
characters. Mostly boxes. Also there area only 385 lines of this
gibberish instead of the 1600 or so that I had of readable syntax.
Any ideas??
Thanks, Jan

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[Garry Gelade]

Looks like you might have a .sav file here. Could you have somehow
overwritten your syntax file with a data file?

Garry Gelade
Business Analytic Ltd

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Subject: Syntax file filled with weird characters??

I opened my saved syntax file today and the file is filled with weird
characters. Mostly boxes. Also there area only 385 lines of this
gibberish instead of the 1600 or so that I had of readable syntax.
Any ideas??
Thanks, Jan

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[Maguin, Eugene]

Jan,

I'm assuming that these lines arae from your 'syntax' file.

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If so, then I'd say that '... DATA FILE ...' tells you what happened. And
that is that you (somehow) saved your data file on top of your syntax file.
Hope you have a backup or can extract the syntax from the output or log
files.

Gene Maguin




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Subject: Syntax file filled with weird characters??

I opened my saved syntax file today and the file is filled with weird
characters. Mostly boxes. Also there area only 385 lines of this
gibberish instead of the 1600 or so that I had of readable syntax.
Any ideas??
Thanks, Jan

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18.0.0
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[Jon K Peck]

Are you sure about that file?  The text you are showing indicates that it is an sav file, not a syntax file.

Jon Peck
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I opened my saved syntax file today and the file is filled with weird
characters. Mostly boxes. Also there area only 385 lines of this
gibberish instead of the 1600 or so that I had of readable syntax.
Any ideas??
Thanks, Jan

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[J McClure]

Thanks! The answer was as usual right in front of my eyes.
Jan

On 11/29/2010 1:30 PM, Jon K Peck wrote:

Are you sure about that file?  The text you are showing indicates that it is an sav file, not a syntax file.

Jon Peck
Senior Software Engineer, IBM
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312-651-3435



From:        J McClure [hidden email]
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Date:        11/29/2010 02:14 PM
Subject:        [SPSSX-L] Syntax file filled with weird characters??
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I opened my saved syntax file today and the file is filled with weird
characters. Mostly boxes. Also there area only 385 lines of this
gibberish instead of the 1600 or so that I had of readable syntax.
Any ideas??
Thanks, Jan

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