Hi Juergen,

I have experienced this a couple of times myself.

I found that .rec data files recieved from certain persons seemed to be corrupted, because the email account they where sent from broke files longer than a certain number of characters into multiple lines. I have experienced this behaiour only with emails sent from hotmail accounts.

Sollution: Convert the ascii file (.rec) into a binary file, e.g. by zipping it. This prevents the email client from trying to include the text file in the message body (and thereby breaking lines).

Kind regards,

Jesper Kjær Hansen Student Assistant Department of Statistics University of Southern Denmark

-----Original Message----- From: epidata-list-bounces@lists.umanitoba.ca [mailto:epidata-list-bounces@lists.umanitoba.ca] On Behalf Of epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 11:24 AM To: epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca Subject: [EpiData-list] Epidata: "Error reading record"

Hello everybody,

I sometimes get an error message "Error reading record" when I open an Epidata *.rec file. Sometimes it happens by opening the whole file (I can't open it), sometimes only, when I try to access the last entered record. When I export a data file with this error message (i.e. to SPSS), all records are exported correctly, nothing is lost (as far as I can see).

I believe, that this error only happens with data files that I received as email-attachments. Is it possible, that sending *.rec-files by email "destroys" something in the file structure? Any suggestions how to avoid this problem?

Thanks for help

Juergen Spiegel

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