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Using Conversion Utilities and Portable Files Vince Gray, Ontario DLI Training, April 17, 2012
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Using Conversion Utilities
and Portable Files
Vince Gray, Ontario DLI Training, April 17, 2012
Conversion utilities
►Will demonstrate StatTransfer
Commercial software
www.stattransfer.com
Free trial available ($179 for single user license)
►Don’t need a lot of licenses – possibly only one or two for support staff
►Can license for simultaneous use
Other software and portable files
►Having shown a conversion utility, note that most software packages have the ability to open files in non-native formats
►SPSS and SAS have “portable” or “transfer” formats that allow for files to be moved between versions and operating systems E.g., a user has an earlier version of the
software and can’t read the current SPSS format