[Gretl-users] Tramo script

[Allin Cottrell]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza wrote:

> I finally rewrote my Tramo-linearization script to take into 
> account some of the new features introduced by Allin, and trying 
> to make the script usable in both, Linux and Windows. You may 
> find it in the attached files.

Thanks!

> There are two things that I would add to the gretl "wishes list" 
> (not urgent, Allin, if you think that it is not the time now) 
> with respect to this type of script:
>
> 1- If gretl automatically produces an "environment variable" 
> indicating whether it is being executed in Linux/Windows, we 
> could go without the parameter "linux=0/1" used in this script.

OK, we now have this.  There is a built-in constant, "WIN32" which 
has value 1 when gretl is running on MS Windows, otherwise 0.
So you can do. e.g.

if WIN32
   # do something
else
   # do something else
end if

> 2- Another problem with the decimal point: as Tramo uses points, 
> this script only works well if the user unselect "use locale 
> settings as decimal points" in preferences. May be posible to 
> have a "set" variable to force the use of decimal points inside 
> a function?

That is a little trickier, but we'll get that before long.

Allin.