E-DataAid slow

[David McFarlane]

>That also raises another issue--why is the
>unicode on by default for exporting SPSS text file? I couldn't figure
>out why SPSS was seeing a garbled file when I tried importing until I
>re-saved the text file as ANSI and then it read it fine!

I had a similar problem when I wanted to process some exported data 
with an Excel macro (for later re-importing back into 
E-DataAid).  Excel handled the file pretty well, except it had an 
extra character at the beginning of "STRING" in cell A1, and that 
messed up the re-import into E-DataAid.  When I made sure to export 
the data without Unicode, cell A1 came out as it should.  Since 
Unicode was the unalterable default and I could not trust my users to 
manually turn off Unicode every time, I worked around the problem in 
Excel by just writing "STRING" back into cell A1.  Sheesh.  What was 
PST staff thinking?  (Or perhaps, what were they smoking, etc., pick 
your own gibe.)

I agree that E-DataAid 2 should export data as non-Unicode by 
default, or at least allow us to change the default setting.  In 
fact, I already posted this request in December to the PST Forum at 
http://support.pstnet.com/forum/Topic2552-12-1.aspx .  Perhaps others 
could add their voice to that post.

-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder


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