Re: st: import SPSS files

[Ron�n Conroy <rconroy@rcsi.ie>]

On 5 I�il 2006, at 16:44, Nick Cox wrote:

> In addition, the Stata command -hexdump- lets you look
> at any kind of file and see what kind of beast you have.
You can tell an awful lot with a plain old text editor. Here, for  
example, is are the first chunk of an SPSS data file:

$FL2@(#) SPSS DATA FILE MS Windows Release 13.0 spssio32.dll    
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Many people feel that they won't understand what's inside files in  
proprietory formats. In fact, you can figure out a lot. Most packages  
'sign' their files (though Stata data files are unsigned, which, I  
think, is an oversight) and, in addition, many Micro$oft documents  
contain a wealth of unsuspected information, near the bottom.


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