There's a program called dBank (for Windows) by Sam Ouliaris at
http://ideas.repec.org/c/cod/doswin/dbank.html that can read and
export IMF data.  I haven't used it for ages, but last time I did it
worked like a charm.  It's shareware, or was last I knew.

-Richard

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Richard Sherman
Department of Political Science, Leiden University
Leiden, Netherlands
http://homepage.mac.com/richard.sherman




On Oct 6, 2006, at 3:49 PM, Benjamin Freeman wrote:

> I am having some difficulty working with the IMF Government Finance
> Statistics Data from the ICPSR Study No. 8624.  Specifically, I do
> not know
> exactly how to unpack the main data file.  Has anyone written code
> to unpack
> this file?  Or, does anyone know of an alternative source for this
> data that
> does not require unpacking?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Benjamin Freeman
> PhD Student
> Texas A&M University
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