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The fix will be in the next patch. I should note, pasting text into the model or variables view of a model is meaningless and in the future will do nothing as opposed to crashing.

In regards to the shorthand issue, it could be one of several things. The first thing I would try is changing your syntax to dbopen(type=macrobond) xx as mb 'xx' is the database name. In the Macrobond case, database name is irrelevant and ignored. So it can be anything. It is needed as a placeholder...

You can save using full precision via the 'f' option. For example, mytable.save(f) myfile 'save mytable to a csv file named myfile.csv with full precision If you want to specify the precision, change the precision for all your cells in the table using the table 'setformat' command and then save. For...

It will be fixed in the next patch.

Chris,

Take a look at http://forums.eviews.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2351

It looks like you may be missing an extra parameter. I am guessing 'frdb_m' is the database name and 'kvbi-ovibos' is your server name, but I may have them reversed. In either case you are missing the port number. The typical command to open a Fame server database is similiar to dbopen(t=f, s=port_n...

Yes, the EViews 7 License Manager is capable of hosting EViews 6 licenses in addition to EViews 7 licenses simultaneously. Contact support@eviews.com along with your EViews 6 serial number, indicating that you wish to unregister your previous server due to hardware issues. From there we can 'reset' ...

Make sure the directory c:\eviews\install exists prior to running the installation. The installer will not create the directory for you.

Also log on as the administrator for your machine when installing

The documentation is incorrect. The documentation for 'logmode' currently reads hideprogline/-hideprogline [Hide/Do not hide] the program line number when reporting errors encountered during execution. It should read hideprogline/-hideprogline [Hide/Do not hide] the program line when reporting error...

Will be fixed in the next patch

Page up, down, home, end, up arrow and down arrow will work in the next patch.

That functionality is not available. I will look into seeing how difficult it would be to include in the next update.

We will get it fixed ASAP.

Thanks for narrowing down the bug. You saved us a lot of time.

You will not be able to get database specific information such as long source and aggregation type. But you could use @wquery to get the start and end dates. NOTE: @wquery is an undocumented EViews 7 feature that will be made official for EViews 8. Usage will therefore be on an 'as-is' basis. Here i...

Your suggestion is under consideration. It is likely to happen but complications such as keeping current functionality is preventing it from being an easily added feature.