X-Git-Url: https://pintos-os.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Flanguage.texi;h=a81d4e2e2a13c73db0c33ec557510bb7ec733b9c;hb=b401615e6db40bf74394839b96600afe3a868a95;hp=5381668c705ad38675c924d2147858a8b2790c82;hpb=a9b46fb9e208c694e39d6f173bfa6fe631a30129;p=pspp-builds.git diff --git a/doc/language.texi b/doc/language.texi index 5381668c..a81d4e2e 100644 --- a/doc/language.texi +++ b/doc/language.texi @@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ of Commands}, for details. Analyze data, writing results of analyses to the listing file. Cause transformations specified earlier in the file to be performed. In a more general sense, a @dfn{procedure} is any command that causes the -active file (the data) to be read. +active dataset (the data) to be read. @end table @node Order of Commands @@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ Valid in any state. When executed in the initial or procedure state, causes a transition to the transformation state. @item -Clears the active file if executed in the procedure or transformation +Clears the active dataset if executed in the procedure or transformation state. @end itemize @@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ Invalid in INPUT PROGRAM and FILE TYPE states. @item Causes a transition to the INPUT PROGRAM state. @item -Clears the active file. +Clears the active dataset. @end itemize @item @cmd{FILE TYPE} @@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ Invalid in INPUT PROGRAM and FILE TYPE states. @item Causes a transition to the FILE TYPE state. @item -Clears the active file. +Clears the active dataset. @end itemize @item Other file definition commands @@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ Invalid in INPUT PROGRAM and FILE TYPE states. @item Cause a transition to the transformation state. @item -Clear the active file, except for @cmd{ADD FILES}, @cmd{MATCH FILES}, +Clear the active dataset, except for @cmd{ADD FILES}, @cmd{MATCH FILES}, and @cmd{UPDATE}. @end itemize @@ -530,7 +530,7 @@ System missing value, in format F1. @cindex @code{$TIME} @item $TIME -Number of seconds between midnight 14 Oct 1582 and the time the active file +Number of seconds between midnight 14 Oct 1582 and the time the active dataset was read, in format F20. @cindex @code{$WIDTH} @@ -576,7 +576,7 @@ input field as a number or a string. It might specify that the field contains an ordinary decimal number, a time or date, a number in binary or hexadecimal notation, or one of several other notations. Input formats are used by commands such as @cmd{DATA LIST} that read data or -syntax files into the PSPP active file. +syntax files into the PSPP active dataset. Every input format corresponds to a default @dfn{output format} that specifies the formatting used when the value is output later. It is @@ -1254,7 +1254,7 @@ format is A format with half the input width. @cindex scratch variables Most of the time, variables don't retain their values between cases. -Instead, either they're being read from a data file or the active file, +Instead, either they're being read from a data file or the active dataset, in which case they assume the value read, or, if created with @cmd{COMPUTE} or another transformation, they're initialized to the system-missing value