1 PSPP NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
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9 * REGRESSION now recognises /STATISTICS=CI(x) which causes confidence
10 intervals for the coefficients to be printed.
12 * PSPPIRE graphical user interface improvements:
14 - File|Open now allows an encoding to be selected for opening
17 - File|Display Data File Information|External File... now allows an
18 encoding to be selected.
20 - A problem with the Means dialog has been resolved (bug #41433).
22 - Several problems related to the input of spreadsheets have been
23 fixed (bug #41657, #41620
25 * System file related improvements:
27 - With ENCODING="DETECT", SYSFILE INFO can now help the user to
28 pick an encoding for reading a system file that does not identify
31 - SYSFILE INFO now accepts an ENCODING subcommand to specify the
32 character encoding of string data in the system file.
34 - System files that contain duplicate variable names may now be
35 read successfully (bug #41475).
37 Changes from 0.8.1 to 0.8.2:
39 * Charts are now rendered with colours from the Tango palette instead
40 of fully saturated primaries.
42 * Support for new system file variants:
44 - PSPP can now read and write ZCOMPRESSED system files, which
45 compress data much more effectively than older "compressed"
46 files. (The older format is still supported.)
48 - PSPP can now decrypt encrypted system files, using the new
49 pspp-convert utility. The encrypted system file format is
50 unacceptably insecure, so to discourage its use PSPP and PSPPIRE
51 do not directly read or write this format.
53 * Missing values for long string variables are now read from and
54 written to system files in an SPSS-compatible fashion.
56 (Earlier versions of PSPP that supported missing values for long
57 string variables wrote them to system files in an SPSS-incompatible
58 way. To fix the problem, read the system file with this version of
59 PSPP and then save a new copy of it.)
61 * pspp-convert, a new standalone utility for converting SPSS system
62 and portable files to other formats, is now included. The initial
63 version supports comma-separated value files as output format.
64 pspp-convert can also decrypt encrypted system files.
68 - zlib is now a required dependency. (Previously it was optional.)
70 Changes from 0.8.0 to 0.8.1:
76 * Changes to existing commands:
78 - CROSSTABS: The requirement that one expected count must be less than five
79 before Fishers Exact Test will be reported has been removed.
81 * PSPPIRE graphical user interface improvements:
83 - A new set of icons has been contributed.
85 - Syntax windows now parse syntax in "auto" mode, which in practice
86 should mean that both "batch" and "interactive" syntax now works,
87 instead of just "interactive" syntax.
89 - The variable pane of data windows now include a Role column.
93 - System files written by IBM SPSS 21 are now read without warnings.
95 - System files written by "VOXCO INTERVIEWER 4.3" are now read
98 - PSPPIRE should now more gracefully handle syntax files that contain
101 Changes from 0.6.2 to 0.8.0:
107 - DATAFILE ATTRIBUTES
114 - LOGISTIC REGRESSION
118 - PRESERVE and RESTORE
122 - SAVE TRANSLATE to CSV and tab-delimited files
124 - VARIABLE ATTRIBUTES
126 * Changes to existing commands:
128 - AUTORECODE has a new GROUP subcommand.
130 - CROSSTABS has been re-implemented to fix numerous bugs.
132 - EXAMINE: /MISSING=LISTWISE is now the default.
134 - DO REPEAT command has been reimplemented. Now, when DO REPEAT
135 contains an INCLUDE or INSERT command, substitutions are not
136 applied to the included file.
138 - FILE HANDLE has a new ENDS subcommand to select CR or CRLF new-lines.
140 - HOST has been updated to use more modern syntax.
142 - Most commands that work with data files now support a new
145 - MISSING VALUES can now assign missing values to long string
148 - ONEWAY: the POSTHOC subcommand is now implemented.
150 - The following new subcommands to NPAR TESTS have been implemented:
151 COCHRAN, FRIEDMAN, JONCKHEERE-TERPSTRA, KENDALL, KRUSKAL-WALLIS, MANN-WHITNEY,
152 MCNEMAR, SIGN, WILCOXON, and RUNS
154 - SET and SHOW no longer have ENDCMD, NULLINE, PROMPT, CPROMPT, and
155 DPROMPT subcommands. The defaults are now fixed values.
157 - SHOW now has a JOURNAL subcommand, to show the location of the
160 - VALUE LABELS can now assign value labels to long string
163 * Other language changes:
165 - The new DATASET commands replace the "scratch file" PSPP
166 extension, which is no longer supported.
168 - Strings may now include arbitrary Unicode code points specified
169 in hexadecimal, using the syntax U'hhhh'. For example, Unicode
170 code point U+1D11E, the musical G clef character, may be
171 expressed as U'1D11E'.
173 See the "Tokens" section in the PSPP manual for more information.
175 - In previous versions of PSPP, in a string expressed in
176 hexadecimal with X'hh' syntax, the hexadecimal digits expressed
177 bytes in the locale encoding. In this version of PSPP, X'hh'
178 syntax always expresses bytes in UTF-8 encoding.
180 See the "Tokens" section in the PSPP manual for more information.
182 * PSPPIRE graphical user interface improvements:
184 - Added support for non-ASCII characters in strings, labels and
187 - A "Split Window" function is available, which makes it easier to
188 see different parts of a large data file.
190 - Data files can now be opened by specifing their name as the first
191 argument. This means that on a properly configured desktop, double
192 clicking on an icon will open the file.
194 - Foreign formats, such as Gnumeric, OpenDocument and CSV can be imported
195 via using an "intelligent" application assistant dialog.
199 - The new "cairo" output driver supports output in PostScript, PDF,
200 and SVG formats. Its functionality is a superset of that of the
201 "postscript" driver, which has been removed. You must have Cairo
202 and Pango installed to build the "cairo" driver.
204 - Charts are now produced with Cairo and Pango, instead of libplot.
205 Without them, the new graphing features will not work. If you do
206 not have Cairo and Pango installed, you must run `configure' with
209 - The plain text output driver now properly supports multibyte UTF-8
210 characters, including double-width characters and combining
213 - Output to OpenDocument format is now supported.
215 - The HTML output is much improved.
217 * The "pspp" program has a new option --batch (or -b) that selects
218 "batch" syntax mode. In previous versions of PSPP this syntax mode
219 was the default. Now a new "auto" syntax mode is the default. In
220 "auto" mode, PSPP interprets most syntax files correctly regardless
221 of their intended syntax mode.
223 See the "Syntax Variants" section in the PSPP manual for more
226 * The "pspp" program has a new option --syntax-encoding that
227 specifies the encoding for syntax files listed on the command line,
228 as well as the default encoding for syntax files included with
229 INCLUDE or INSERT. The default is to accept the system locale
230 encoding, UTF-8, UTF-16, or UTF-32, automatically detecting which
231 one the system file uses.
233 See the documentation for the INSERT command in the PSPP manual for
236 * Text data files that PRINT and WRITE creates now use the system
237 native line ends by default (CRLF on Windows, LF only elsewhere).
238 Use the new ENDS subcommand on FILE HANDLE to override the default.
240 * A new Perl module allows Perl programs to read and write PSPP
243 * A tutorial chapter has been added to the user manual.
245 Changes from 0.6.1 to 0.6.2:
249 - Dutch, thanks to Harry Thijssen.
251 - Brazilian Portuguese, thanks to Michel Boaventura.
253 Thanks for translations are also due to the coordinators at
254 translationproject.org.
256 * Statistical bug fixes:
258 - REGRESSION: Report correct standard error of the estimate (bug
261 - T-TEST: Report correct significance of paired sample T-test in
262 the common case (bug #26936) and corner cases. Thanks to Mike
263 Griffiths and Matej Cepl for reporting these bugs.
265 * Build fixes and changes:
267 - Fix build with GTK+ 2.17.4 and later.
269 - Make running "make" after running "configure" with different
270 settings reliably rebuild version.c.
272 - Cygwin and MinGW build fixes.
274 - Fixes for building with recent gnulib.
276 - The Makefile now honors two new variables, PSPP_LDFLAGS and
277 PSPPIRE_LDFLAGS, that affect linking of the PSPP and PSPPIRE
278 binaries, respectively. This makes building easier for some
281 - Fixes for "configure --enable-relocatable" (bug #25508).
283 * Data file bug fixes and changes:
285 - Fix reading text data files that contain a mix of white space
286 and commas. Now "a ,b" is treated as two fields containing "a"
287 and "b"; previously it was treated as three, with an empty field
290 - Fix writing corrupted .sav files on Windows.
292 - Fix writing variable labels longer than 252 bytes to save files.
293 Thanks to Robert Westlund for reporting this bug.
295 - Fix writing corrupted .por files (bug #26034).
297 - Fix reading .por files whose initial lines are not padded out
298 with spaces as expected.
300 - PSPP will no longer issue warnings about some .sav file records
301 or values that it does not understand. These warnings were
302 harmless, but needlessly alarmed some users.
304 - Fix crash reading empty string fields from PostgreSQL databases.
306 * Bug fixes that affect PSPP and PSPPIRE:
308 - Users may now control precision of output statistics. Instead
309 of hard coding the width and decimals of output numbers, respect
310 the default format in most instances. Counts are now normally
311 displayed with the format of the weight variable, if any.
313 - Fix crash when an INSERT command specifies the name of a file
314 that does not exist (bug #24569).
316 - Fix crash when CROSSTABS specifies a long-string variable (bugs
319 - Fix crash drawing pie charts with many segments.
321 - Fix crash when NUMERIC specifies an invalid format.
323 * PSPPIRE bug fixes and changes:
325 - On Windows, write the output file to the user's home directory
326 instead of the current directory, to better match user
329 - Some data editor fixes.
333 - Fix typo in BINOMIAL section of user manual (bug #25892).
335 Changes from 0.6.0 to 0.6.1:
337 * Statistical bug fixes:
339 - Report correct standardized regression coefficients in linear
340 regression output (bug #23567).
342 * Bug fixes that affect PSPP and PSPPIRE:
344 - Avoid crash with pie charts (bug #24014).
346 - Don't append % to count totals (bug #24003).
348 - Don't crash on bad input (bug #24031).
350 - Don't crash if "end data." is not left aligned (bug #24115).
352 - Change default workspace value to 64 MB, to avoid unnecessary
353 disk accesses on modern machines.
357 - Add ".sav" or ".por" suffix to filename when saving with Save_As
360 - Make it possible to reopen the output window on Windows (bug
363 - A POSIX regular expression library is now included and used
364 automatically if the host does not have one or has one that is
367 * Build fixes and changes:
369 - Work around bug in GSL that prevented build with recent GCC
370 versions without manually adding -fgnu89-inline to CFLAGS.
372 - Also warn about missing prerequisites as we encounter them (bug
375 - Distribute necessary files to allow users working from the
376 distributed tarball to configure with --enable-gui-tools.
378 - Append $(EXEEXT_FOR_BUILD) to output file name when building
379 q2c, fixing build problems on Windows.
381 - GSL 1.8 or later is now required.
383 - Build errors with --enable-relocatable were fixed.
385 * The German translations were removed, since native German speakers
386 found them too poor to be useful.
388 Changes from 0.4.0 to 0.6.0:
390 * The PSPP license is now version 3 or later of the GNU General
391 Public License. Previously, it was version 2 or later.
393 * PSPP now has a graphical interface, called PSPPIRE. This
394 interface allows you to enter data and variable definitions
395 interactively. Commands may be executed in syntax form, or by
396 using the interactive dialog boxes available from the dropdown
399 * A few sample syntax files are now included in the `examples'
402 * Numerous major and minor bugs have been fixed.
406 * The INSTALL file now reflects the details of how to install
407 PSPP. It is a tailored version of the generic installation
408 instructions, instead of a verbatim copy.
410 * iconv, which is ordinarily installed as part of a Unix-like
411 system, is now required. If you don't have it already, you can
412 install GNU libiconv (http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/).
414 * libxml2 and zlib are new optional dependencies. They are
415 required to use PSPP's support for reading Gnumeric files.
417 Statistical procedure changes:
419 * REGRESSION is a new procedure for fitting linear models to data
420 via least-squares estimation.
422 * NPAR TESTS is a new procedure for non-parametric tests. In this
423 release, it supports binomial and chi-square tests.
425 * RANK is a new procedure to rank variables. It supports numerous
428 * FREQUENCIES can now output histograms and pie charts. These
429 features were present in earlier releases, but not documented.
431 User interface changes:
433 * In many situations where PSPP once terminated with a fatal
434 error, PSPP now recovers and continues execution.
436 * PSPP is now able to start up and run even if it cannot find its
439 * Journaling of interactive commands to a disk file is now
440 implemented. By default, journaling is enabled, to a file named
441 `pspp.jnl' in the current directory. SET JOURNAL may be used to
444 * The use of `+' between syntax file names on the command line to
445 prevent the dictionary from being cleared between their
446 executions is no longer supported. All syntax files are now
447 executed as if `+' had been specified.
449 * The -d/--define and -u/--undef command line options are no
450 longer supported. Instead, use /usr/bin/env or shell primitives
451 to define or clear environment variables before invoking PSPP.
453 * If a syntax file named named `rc' is found in a configuration
454 directory (such as $HOME/.pspp), it is executed before any
455 syntax file specified on the command line. The -r or
456 --no-statrc command line option may be used to disable this
461 * Output configuration options have changed. Please refer to the
462 manual for a full description of the available options.
464 In consequence, you will need to reinstall your "devices" file.
465 "make install" will do this for you.
467 * Most error messages are now written to PSPP output files by
468 default. SET ERROR can be used to disable this behavior.
470 * When invoked interactively, PSPP now by default produces output
471 on the terminal, piping it through the "more" program.
472 Previously, by default output was written only to file
473 pspp.list. On most terminals, the page length used for output
474 automatically adapts to the terminal size, even if the terminal
479 - This driver now supports charts in output. Charts are written
480 as separate files that the main output file refers to. By
481 default, charts are written in PNG format to files named
482 pspp-1.png, pspp-2.png, and so on.
484 - Configurations are provided that use VT100 (and xterm)
485 line-drawing characters in tables. The option "-o list-vt100"
486 requests use of this device for output to pspp.list.
490 - The default paper size is now determined using the PAPERSIZE
491 environment variable, or the LC_PAPER locale category on
492 systems that support it. If these are not set, the default is
493 now A4, instead of US letter. To make US letter the default,
494 set PAPERSIZE to "letter" in your environment.
496 - Font metrics are now read from AFM files, instead of
497 Groff-format metrics files. PostScript fonts can now be
500 In consequence, you will need to install an AFM file for each
501 font used in PostScript output. "make install" will install
502 AFM files for the standard PostScript fonts, including the
503 ones that the PostScript driver uses by default.
505 - Standard paper sizes no longer need to be specified through a
506 configuration file. The "papersize" configuration file is no
507 longer needed, or supported.
509 - The PostScript prologue is no longer obtained from the
510 "ps-prologue" configuration file. This configuration file is
511 no longer needed, or supported.
515 - The HTML prologue is no longer obtained from the
516 "html-prologue" configuration file. This configuration file
517 is no longer needed, or supported.
519 Command language changes:
521 * The following commands are new:
523 - GET DATA, which currently supports reading Gnumeric files and
524 text data files. It will be extended later to read other
525 types of foreign data.
527 - CD, to change the current directory.
529 - INSERT, to execute a syntax file.
531 - DELETE VARIABLES, to remove variables from the active file
534 - ADD DOCUMENT, to add text to active file documents.
536 - CLOSE FILE HANDLE (a PSPP extension; see below).
538 - XEXPORT, a PSPP extension that is a transformation equivalent
541 * The following functions for transformation expressions are new:
543 - DATEDIFF, for computing the difference of two dates.
545 - DATESUM, for advancing a date by a specified duration.
547 - VALUELABEL, to obtain the value label for a value.
549 * PSPP now supports very long string variables (over 255 bytes
552 * MATCH FILES now supports the FIRST and LAST subcommands.
554 * Previous versions of PSPP prohibited using commands to both read and
555 write a single file at the same time. Now, PSPP allows this, and
556 the new version of the file atomically replaces the old version.
558 * The following commands are no longer available. They will be
559 re-implemented in a later release:
561 - CLEAR TRANSFORMATIONS
567 * The PROCESS IF command, which was deprecated, has been removed.
568 You may replace any usage of it by SELECT IF following
569 TEMPORARY, which has the same effect.
571 * The output format for variables created by VECTOR may now be
572 specified as part of the VECTOR syntax.
574 "Scratch files", a new PSPP extension:
576 A scratch file, like a system file, consists of a dictionary and
577 any number of cases. Small scratch files are stored in memory;
578 one that grows too large is written to disk. By default, any file
579 handle whose name begins with # is assumed to refer to a scratch
582 Scratch files can be used just about anywhere a system or portable
583 file can be used. Also, portable files are now allowed in most
584 places that system files were allowed in previous PSPP version.
586 A new CLOSE FILE HANDLE command allows the storage associated with
587 scratch files to be freed. It also allows file handles to be
588 reassigned to new files.
590 For more information on scratch files, refer to the "File Handles"
591 section in the PSPP manual. For specifics of what commands now
592 allow what kinds of files to be specified, refer to the
593 documentation on those particular commands.
597 * Binary formats and IBM/360 formats, including ASCII/EBCDIC
598 translation, are now supported. Use FILE HANDLE to specify the
599 format of these files.
601 * Little-endian, big-endian, and VAX-endian formats are now
602 supported for integer binary formats when reading and writing
603 data files. The new RIB and WIB subcommands on the SET command
604 control endianness of integer data. The default is the host's
607 * IEEE 754, VAX, and IBM hexadecimal formats are now supported for
608 floating point binary formats when reading and writing data
609 files. The new RRB and WRB subcommands on the SET command
610 control the floating point format. The default is the host's
611 native floating point format.
613 * DATA LIST now supports the SKIP subcommand, to skip records at
614 the beginning of a file. For compatibility, DATA LIST now
615 treats N format as F format for FREE and LIST format input.
617 * The SAVE and XSAVE commands now support the UNSELECTED,
618 PERMISSIONS, NAMES, and MAP subcommands.
620 * The EXPORT command has been re-implemented to obtain better
621 results. Support for the UNSELECTED, DIGITS, and TYPE
622 subcommands has been added.
624 * For compatibility, PRINT now inserts a space at the beginning of
625 every output line, even lines that would otherwise be blank,
626 when OUTFILE is specified. (The behavior of WRITE is
629 * For compatibility, PRINT EJECT now inserts the digit `1' at the
630 beginning of each line that should begin a new page.
632 * For compatibility, WRITE now outputs the system-missing value as
633 a field filled with spaces. Binary formats are an exception.
634 (The behavior of PRINT is unchanged.)
638 * Input and output format descriptions have been rewritten. They
639 now precisely describe what is accepted on input and written on
642 * The descriptions of the PSPP system and portable file formats
643 have been extensively revised and improved.
645 For developers, the build system now requires Autoconf 2.60 and
648 Changes from 0.3.0 to 0.4.0:
650 Changes in build dependencies:
652 * The GNU Scientific Library (libgsl), version 1.6 or later, is
655 * libplot from GNU plotutils is optional. Without it, the new
656 graphing features will not work. If you do not have it
657 installed, you must run `configure' with --without-libplot.
659 * libgmp2 is no longer a dependency.
661 Newly implemented commands and statistical features:
663 * EXAMINE, including its graphing features.
665 * FREQUENCIES now supports percentiles.
673 * SORT CASES now sorts stably, that is, two cases with equal sort
674 criteria will be in the same relative order before and after the
677 * T-TEST (re-written).
679 * DATE and USE. These commands are parsed but otherwise ignored,
680 to enhance compatibility with certain command files that invoke
683 * VARIABLE WIDTH, VARIABLE ALIGNMENT, and VARIABLE LEVEL. These
684 currently have no effect on PSPP output, but their values are
685 written to and read from system files and thus may affect
686 third-party software.
688 * SET EPOCH implemented.
690 * DATA LIST FREE and DATA LIST LIST now support arbitrary field
693 * FILE HANDLE now supports custom tab widths.
695 Long variable names (and other identifiers) are now supported. Up
696 to the first 64 bytes of each identifier is significant. PSPP now
697 reads and writes system files compatible with SPSS version 12.
699 New --algorithm and --syntax command line options allow
700 SPSS-compatible or enhanced modes to be selected.
702 Support for transformation expressions has been rewritten and
703 significantly improved. Refer to the manual for details.
705 Calculation of moments (mean, standard deviation, kurtosis,
706 skewness) has been rewritten and should now be more accurate. In
707 --algorithm=enhanced mode moments may be more accurate than SPSS in
710 Numerous bugs have been fixed, too many to mention here. Many new
711 tests have been added, leading to the discovery and fixing of many
714 The ASCII output driver can now squeeze multiple blank lines into
717 Much of the code has been rewritten and refactored. It is now much
720 The FILE TYPE and REPEATING DATA commands have been disabled for
721 this release because their implementations were deemed too buggy to
722 be useful. They will be fixed and replaced in a future release.
724 New pspp-mode for Emacs (in pspp-mode.el).
726 Added rudimentary command-line completion for interactive input.
728 lib/julcal and lib/dcdflib are no longer used, so they have been
731 For developers, the build system now requires Autoconf 2.58 and
732 Automake 1.7. The included gettext has been updated to version
735 Some reports state that Texinfo 4.8, the latest version, may be
736 necessary to successfully format the documentation on some systems.
738 Version 0.3.0 changes since 0.2.3:
742 * Using alphanumeric variables in functions under AGGREGATE
745 * Under certain circumstances, the final case would be omitted
746 from the results of an AGGREGATE operation. Fixed.
748 * Undefined behavior was invoked by referencing a freed pointer
749 under certain circumstances. Fixed.
751 * A wrong record size was displayed when paging the active file to
754 * Not having enough temporary space for sorting caused a core
757 * Syntax errors in function descriptions on AGGREGATE caused core
760 * A null pointer was dereferenced, causing a core dump, when
761 PERCENTILES was specified on FREQUENCIES. This fixes the
762 problem, but PSPP still doesn't calculate percentiles.
764 * SORT always sorted in ascending order. Fixed.
766 * Some minor memory leaks in the expression parser were removed.
768 * Many assertions fixed for strict ANSI C compliance.
772 * SET ECHO ON now implemented, but turned off by default.
774 * PRINT specifier supported on END REPEAT.
778 * System libgmp2 library is used if installed instead of
779 unconditionally using the included libgmp2 subset.
781 * Extensive code cleanup, which continues.
783 * Added CORRELATIONS command parser, but not implemented.
785 Version 0.2.3 changes since 0.2.2:
789 * SPLIT FILE with a string variable caused a core dump. Fixed.
791 * Nested INCLUDEs didn't work. Fixed.
793 * The MATCH FILES procedure set the values of variables not present
794 to 0. It should have been SYSMIS. This is now fixed.
796 * The REMARK command was too aggressive about skipping lines. It
797 didn't like being the last command in a file.
799 * Comment parsing wasn't consistent with the rest of the code in its
800 idea of where one command ends and another starts. This meant
801 that sometimes commands would be mysteriously ignored. Thanks to
802 Dr. Dirk Melcher <BZN-mdksh@t-online.de> for reporting this bug.
804 * The TABLE subcommand on MATCH FILES worked only erratically at
805 best. This fixes it. Thanks to Dr. Dirk Melcher
806 <BZN-mdksh@t-online.de> for reporting this bug.
808 * VARIABLE LABELS rejected a slash before the first variable
809 specification, contradicting the documentation. Thanks to Walter
810 M. Gray <graywm@northernc.on.ca> for reporting this bug.
812 * Because of an incorrect optimization in memory allocation,
813 CROSSTABS sometimes segfaulted when asked to output multiple
814 tables. Thanks to Walter M. Gray <graywm@northernc.on.ca> for
817 * CROSSTABS didn't display value labels for column and row
818 variables. Thanks to Walter M. Gray <graywm@northernc.on.ca> for
821 * WRITE didn't write line ends. Fixed. Thanks to Dr. Dirk Melcher
822 <BZN-mdksh@t-online.de> for reporting this bug.
824 * The TABLE subcommand on MATCH FILES worked only erratically at
825 best. This fixes it. Thanks to Dr. Dirk Melcher
826 <BZN-mdksh@t-online.de> for reporting this bug.
828 * VARIABLE LABELS rejected a slash before the first variable
829 specification, contradicting the documentation. Thanks to Walter
830 M. Gray <graywm@northernc.on.ca> for reporting this bug.
832 * Because of an incorrect optimization in memory allocation,
833 CROSSTABS sometimes segfaulted when asked to output multiple
834 tables. Thanks to Walter M. Gray <graywm@northernc.on.ca> for
837 * CROSSTABS didn't display value labels for column and row
838 variables. Thanks to Walter M. Gray <graywm@northernc.on.ca> for
841 * WRITE didn't write line ends. Fixed. Thanks to Dr. Dirk Melcher
842 <BZN-mdksh@t-online.de> for reporting this bug.
844 * MATCH FILES corrupted memory and dumped core on some syntax
847 * MATCH FILES should set numeric values not available to the
848 system-missing value, not to 0. Thanks to Dr. Dirk Melcher
849 <BZN-mdksh@t-online.de> for reporting this bug.
851 * KEEP didn't work properly on the SAVE procedure. Fixed. Thanks
852 to Ralf Geschke <ralf@kuerbis.org> for reporting this bug.
856 * Some systems didn't like the way open_file was coded. Thanks to
857 Hankin <hankin@rogue.consultco.com> for pointing this out.
859 * The SAVE procedure didn't save long string variables properly.
860 Fixed by this patch. Thanks to Hankin
861 <hankin@rogue.consultco.com> for this patch.
863 * Minor documentation fixes for MATCH FILES.
865 Version 0.2.2 changes since 0.2.1:
869 * Fix behavior of PRINT SPACE for negative arguments.
871 * Fix reading some unusual system files.
873 * Fix LIST problems with very long variables. Thanks to Hankin
874 <hankin@dunno.com> for this bug report.
876 * Fix problems with some string format specifiers.
878 * Fix use of $CASENUM in expressions. Thanks to Dirk Melcher
879 <BZN-mdksh@t-online.de> for reporting this bug.
881 * Additional DATA LIST FREE and DATA LIST LIST fixes. Thanks to
882 Hankin <hankin@dunno.com> again on this one.
884 * Sometimes you may encounter a PSPP script that has to be
885 interpreted in interactive mode. Now you can use the -i flag to
888 * Warnings for egcs 1.1.1 cleaned up. (However you'll get lots of
889 `unused variable' warnings under gcc 2.7.2.3, fixing this will
894 * The files in gmp need the internationalization directory in
895 their include path. Thanks to OKUJI Yoshinori
896 <okuji@kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp> for pointing this out.
898 Version 0.2.1 changes since 0.2.0:
902 * Remember to include examples/ directory in distribution :-)
904 * Fixed gmp compile problems for some non-i386 architectures.
905 Thanks to Hans Olav Eggestad <olav@jordforsk.nlh.no> and others
908 * DATA LIST FREE and DATA LIST LIST parsing of input files is now
909 matches the documented behavior exactly, and error messages are
910 more helpful. Thanks to Mark H. Wood <mwood@IUPUI.Edu>.
912 Version 0.2.0 changes since 0.1.0:
914 Procedures now implemented:
915 * CROSSTABS. Please see documentation for caveats.
917 Transformations and utilities now implemented:
920 * CLEAR TRANSFORMATIONS
921 * DISPLAY (all subcommands).
932 Support for input and output through pipes: "|command" and
933 "command|" filenames; support for special filenames "-", "stdin",
936 New command-line features:
937 * New option --testing-mode: Invoke heuristics to assist testing.
938 * New option --safer, -s: Don't allow certain unsafe operations.
939 * New option --command=CMD, -c CMD: Perform literal command CMD.
940 * rc file ~/.pspp/rc is executed before any other files.
941 * Now multiple syntax files can be specified.
943 Operator LAG is now implemented.
945 Added missing FILE subcommand to REREAD.
947 Table output manager completely rewritten.
949 Device configuration file syntax changed. You will need to
950 reinstall your `devices' file.
952 New output driver for HTML.
954 PostScript driver and prologue simplified.
956 Many bugs fixed. General source-code cleanup.
958 Added Texinfo documentation for:
959 * PSPP system file format
960 * PSPP portable file format
961 * How to write input for q2c parser generator
964 PSPP language is now fully documented. Please report any
965 inaccuracies or omissions in the documentation.
967 Changes for version 0.1.0:
969 First public release. For changes from unreleased development
970 versions, please see ONEWS.
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