In SPSS 11 it was possible to specify relative paths. Example:
FILE HANDLE myfile='..\..\data\current.txt' /LRECL=533.
DATA LIST FILE=myfile /
...
This worked because apparently, SPSS 11 set the working folder to the path where the source .SPS
file is saved. It seems that SPSS 18 always sets it's working folder to the installation folder of SPSS itself. Which is not at all the same thing.
Is there an option to change this behaviour? Or am I stuck with changing everything to absolute filenames?