[Gretl-devel] open pain

[Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti]

On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Stefano Balietti wrote:

> I just updated the source and apparently something has changed because 
> now  opening any  native Gretl  data file returns an error like the 
> following:
> --- Data file is empty
> 
> Error executing script: halting
> > open mroz
>  ---
> 
> The same for djclose, sw_ch14..and any other file. Anyway if I try to 
> access them by the menu Gretl opens them without problems. Even 
> stranger, if i give the complete path with a command like
> 
> open /usr/local/share/gretl/data/misc/mroz.gdt [ and the file does exist]
> 
> it returns the same error

Gaaah! This is almost certainly the result of some ongoing work on an 
ODBC driver.

I have no time now, but I'll try to fix this asap. In the meantime, you 
may work on yesterday's CVS version (use the -D switch to cvs).

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

r.lucchetti at univpm.it
http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti