X-Git-Url: https://pintos-os.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=35e44ae7421f006b5b64c91f49c537f04bf46e77;hb=ab94b96a546c01fef1f15f9d842fb5e5eee9376e;hp=e9895df6b66456491949f0f73c70c2a0179f7843;hpb=9cbe9768e1e2685c2aceb726cbecb7a1ac082dbc;p=pspp-builds.git diff --git a/README b/README index e9895df6..35e44ae7 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -3,12 +3,11 @@ is a free replacement for the proprietary program SPSS. PSPP development is ongoing. It already supports a large subset of SPSS's syntax. Its statistical procedure support is currently -limited, but growing. At your option, PSPP will produce statistical -reports in ASCII, PostScript, or HTML formats. - +limited, but growing. At your option, PSPP will produce statistical +reports in ASCII, PostScript, PDF, HTML, SVG, or OpenDocument formats. Instructions for PSPP installation are in INSTALL, including a list of -prerequisite packages and other PSPP-specific information. Full +prerequisite packages and other PSPP-specific information. Full documentation on PSPP's language will be installed along with the programs. @@ -17,9 +16,16 @@ NEWS. Source code for the latest release of PSPP is available at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/pspp/. Older versions may be obtained from -ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/pspp/. Development sources are available from -CVS at http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/pspp - +ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/pspp/. Development sources are available +at http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/pspp + +The following miscellaneous notes apply to this release: + + * On a few operating systems, such as OpenBSD, some of the + tests may fail with messages similar to: 'Warning: cannot + create a convertor for "646" to "UTF-8"'. These test + failures may safely be ignored. + Questions and comments about using PSPP may be sent to pspp-users@gnu.org. Bug reports may be filed at http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=pspp or emailed to bug-gnu-pspp@gnu.org. We prefer the web-based system @@ -46,8 +52,8 @@ following support to users: * Attractive output, including graphs, in a variety of human- and machine-readable formats. PSPP currently produces - output in ASCII, PostScript, and HTML formats. We will - enhance PSPP's output formatting in the future. + output in ASCII, PostScript, PDF, HTML, and SVG formats. We + will enhance PSPP's output formatting in the future. * Good documentation. Currently the PSPP manual describes its language completely, but we would like to add information on @@ -82,3 +88,6 @@ following: statistical procedures is evolving quickly enough that a plug-in model does not make sense. Over the long term, it may make sense to introduce plug-ins. + +For any copyright year range specified as YYYY-ZZZZ in this package note +that the range specifies every single year in that closed interval.