[Gretl-devel] Backward compatibility

[Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti]

On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza wrote:

> El Wednesday 07 November 2007 17:33:44 Allin Cottrell escribió:
>> On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza wrote:
>>>> Could you please send me as an attachment the exact script you're
>>>> running?  Thanks!
>>>
>>> Yes, I am runnig exactly the script you sent to this list (it is
>>> in the attachment).
>>
>> Aha, mystery solved!  The script is not in fact the same as I
>> posted.  I'm afraid you're using some evil editor that has
>> inserted non-breaking spaces. Your indented lines begin:
>>
>> 0xC2 0xA0
>>
>> Delete that stuff and the script will run OK.
>
> YES, this works!
>
> I only copied Cntrl-C from your message in Kmail and pasted Cntrl-V to the
> gretl script editor, so I suppose may be caused by kmail no?

Definitely. We have a serious contender to the title of "most bloody 
elusive bug ever". Well done Allin!

Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Università Politecnica delle Marche

r.lucchetti at univpm.it
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