* Variable Display Parameter Record::
* Long Variable Names Record::
* Very Long String Record::
+* Data File and Variable Attributes Records::
* Miscellaneous Informational Records::
* Dictionary Termination Record::
* Data Record::
/* @r{Repeated @code{count} times}. */
int32 measure;
-int32 width;
+int32 width; /* @r{Not always present.} */
int32 alignment;
@end example
@item int32 count;
The number of sets of variable display parameters (ordinarily the
-number of variables in the dictionary), times 3.
+number of variables in the dictionary), times 2 or 3.
@end table
The remaining members are repeated @code{count} times, in the same
@item int32 width;
The width of the display column for the variable in characters.
+This field is present if @var{count} is 3 times the number of
+variables in the dictionary. It is omitted if @var{count} is 2 times
+the number of variables.
+
@item int32 alignment;
The alignment of the variable for display purposes:
The total length is @code{count} bytes.
@end table
+@node Data File and Variable Attributes Records
+@section Data File and Variable Attributes Records
+
+The data file and variable attributes records represent custom
+attributes for the system file or for individual variables in the
+system file, as defined on the DATAFILE ATTRIBUTE (@pxref{DATAFILE
+ATTRIBUTE,,,pspp, PSPP Users Guide}) and VARIABLE ATTRIBUTE commands
+(@pxref{VARIABLE ATTRIBUTE,,,pspp, PSPP Users Guide}), respectively.
+
+@example
+/* @r{Header.} */
+int32 rec_type;
+int32 subtype;
+int32 size;
+int32 count;
+
+/* @r{Exactly @code{count} bytes of data.} */
+char attributes[];
+@end example
+
+@table @code
+@item int32 rec_type;
+Record type. Always set to 7.
+
+@item int32 subtype;
+Record subtype. Always set to 17 for a data file attribute record or
+to 18 for a variable attributes record.
+
+@item int32 size;
+The size of each element in the @code{attributes} member. Always set to 1.
+
+@item int32 count;
+The total number of bytes in @code{attributes}.
+
+@item char attributes[];
+The attributes, in a text-based format.
+
+In record type 17, this field contains a single attribute set. An
+attribute set is a sequence of one or more attributes concatenated
+together. Each attribute consists of a name, which has the same
+syntax as a variable name, followed by, inside parentheses, a sequence
+of one or more values. Each value consists of a string enclosed in
+single quotes (@code{'}) followed by a line feed (byte 0x0a). A value
+may contain single quote characters, which are not themselves escaped
+or quoted or required to be present in pairs. There is no apparent
+way to embed a line feed in a value. There is no distinction between
+an attribute with a single value and an attribute array with one
+element.
+
+In record type 18, this field contains a sequence of one or more
+variable attribute sets. If more than one variable attribute set is
+present, each one after the first is delimited from the previous by
+@code{/}. Each variable attribute set consists of a variable name,
+followed by @code{:}, followed by an attribute set with the same
+syntax as on record type 17.
+
+The total length is @code{count} bytes.
+@end table
+
+@subheading Example
+
+A system file produced with the following VARIABLE ATTRIBUTE commands
+in effect:
+
+@example
+VARIABLE ATTRIBUTE VARIABLES=dummy ATTRIBUTE=fred[1]('23') fred[2]('34').
+VARIABLE ATTRIBUTE VARIABLES=dummy ATTRIBUTE=bert('123').
+@end example
+
+@noindent
+will contain a variable attribute record with the following contents:
+
+@example
+00000000 07 00 00 00 12 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 22 00 00 00 |............"...|
+00000010 64 75 6d 6d 79 3a 66 72 65 64 28 27 32 33 27 0a |dummy:fred('23'.|
+00000020 27 33 34 27 0a 29 62 65 72 74 28 27 31 32 33 27 |'34'.)bert('123'|
+00000030 0a 29 |.) |
+@end example
+
@node Miscellaneous Informational Records
@section Miscellaneous Informational Records