Re: Error # 61

Posted by J. R. Carroll-3 on Dec 05, 2012; 3:49pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Error-61-tp5716679p5716694.html

Absolutely interesting - never knew this.

I looked this up and found:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/74496/en-us

(some of them are obvious).

Good to know, thanks Jon.

-J

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On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Jon K Peck <[hidden email]> wrote:

I think you are encountering a legacy of the ancient DOS days.  Some things live forever, I guess.  con is/was the name of a built-in device in DOS for the console, along with lpt1 and a few others.  Trying to save to con.anything fails, whether it is SPSS or other software.  Try it in Notepad, for example (I used c:\temp\temp\con.txt) and you get a message like
con
This file name is a reserved device name
or
... already exists, do you want to replace it, followed by a cannot create error message


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From:        Philip Burgess <[hidden email]>
To:        [hidden email],
Date:        12/05/2012 08:16 AM
Subject:        [SPSSX-L] Error # 61
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I'm running SPSS 20 on a 64bit Windows 7 machine (with 12 processors &
192 GB RAM).

I process a large (7 mill record file) with no issue until I try to save:

file handle     ActiveDir / name = 'D:\AMHOCN\Data\CMHC 2011'.
sav out         'ActiveDir\con.sav' .

>Error # 61 in column 10.  Text: ActiveDir\con.sav
>The filename is not valid.
>Execution of this command stops.

I stumbled (don't know how I got there) that if the file to save was
'cons.sav' - there was no issue and SPSS saved successfully (and the
sav file worked fine).

sav out         'ActiveDir\cons.sav' .

All that is different  is the name of the sav file - con vs. cons

(For interest, the 'con' file is an event file (service contacts) and
the database table is named 'con' - I wanted to maintain names between
the database tables and the SPSS analysis files I generate).

I'm puzzled. Any ideas?

Thanks;

Philip

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