PSPP Reference Manual Error Message

[J R-17]

Hello,

I just installed PSPP (PSPP_0.7.9_2012-05-15_32bits) on a Windows
Vista computer.  Started the application, went to Help - Reference
Manual.  Got the following error message:

error: Cannot open reference manual: Failed to execute helper program
(Invalid argument).  The PSPP user manual is also available...

Is there something I can do to correct this problem?

Thank you, John

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[John Darrington-4]

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 10:15:45PM -0700, J R wrote:
     
     I just installed PSPP (PSPP_0.7.9_2012-05-15_32bits) on a Windows
     Vista computer.  Started the application, went to Help - Reference
     Manual.  Got the following error message:
     
     error: Cannot open reference manual: Failed to execute helper program
     (Invalid argument).  The PSPP user manual is also available...
     
     Is there something I can do to correct this problem?
     
The short answer is: so long as you use Windows, No.

However it should work fine under a free system, with the Gnome
desktop environment installed.  Debian and Ubuntu work fine for example.

The windows installer does provide the manual as a separate  .pdf file too,
so you can use that (or refer to the online version of course).

The longer answer is: yout would need to devise a Texinfo to .CHM filter
to convert the manual to a format that Windows would accept.  I have no
idea how hard this would be.

J'

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[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <john@...> writes:

> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 10:15:45PM -0700, J R wrote:
>      
>      I just installed PSPP (PSPP_0.7.9_2012-05-15_32bits) on a Windows
>      Vista computer.  Started the application, went to Help - Reference
>      Manual.  Got the following error message:
>      
>      error: Cannot open reference manual: Failed to execute helper program
>      (Invalid argument).  The PSPP user manual is also available...
>      
>      Is there something I can do to correct this problem?
>      
> The short answer is: so long as you use Windows, No.
>
> However it should work fine under a free system, with the Gnome
> desktop environment installed.  Debian and Ubuntu work fine for example.
>
> The windows installer does provide the manual as a separate  .pdf file too,
> so you can use that (or refer to the online version of course).
>
> The longer answer is: yout would need to devise a Texinfo to .CHM filter
> to convert the manual to a format that Windows would accept.  I have no
> idea how hard this would be.

Perhaps the Windows packager should remove this menu item.

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