+@c PSPP - a program for statistical analysis.
+@c Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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+@c A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU
+@c Free Documentation License".
+@c
@node System and Portable File IO
@chapter System and Portable File I/O
* GET DATA:: Read from foreign files.
* IMPORT:: Read from a portable file.
* SAVE:: Write to a system file.
+* SAVE DATA COLLECTION:: Write to a system file and metadata file.
* SAVE TRANSLATE:: Write data in foreign file formats.
* SYSFILE INFO:: Display system file dictionary.
* XEXPORT:: Write to a portable file, as a transformation.
[ENCODING='@var{encoding}']
[/ARRANGEMENT=@{DELIMITED,FIXED@}]
[/FIRSTCASE=@{@var{first_case}@}]
- [/IMPORTCASE=@{ALL,FIRST @var{max_cases},PERCENT @var{percent}@}]
+ [/IMPORTCASES=...]
@dots{}additional subcommands depending on ARRANGEMENT@dots{}
@end display
to the number of the first line to read: 2 to skip the first line, 3
to skip the first two lines, and so on.
-@subcmd{IMPORTCASE} can be used to limit the number of cases read from the
-input file. With the default setting, ALL, all cases in the file are
-read. Specify FIRST @var{max_cases} to read at most @var{max_cases} cases
-from the file. Use @subcmd{PERCENT @var{percent}} to read only @var{percent}
-percent, approximately, of the cases contained in the file. (The
-percentage is approximate, because there is no way to accurately count
-the number of cases in the file without reading the entire file. The
-number of cases in some kinds of unusual files cannot be estimated;
-@pspp{} will read all cases in such files.)
+@subcmd{IMPORTCASES} is ignored, for compatibility. Use @cmd{N OF
+CASES} to limit the number of cases read from a file (@pxref{N OF
+CASES}), or @cmd{SAMPLE} to obtain a random sample of cases
+(@pxref{SAMPLE}).
-@subcmd{FIRSTCASE} and @subcmd{IMPORTCASE} may be used with delimited and fixed-format
-data. The remaining subcommands, which apply only to one of the two file
-arrangements, are described below.
+The remaining subcommands apply only to one of the two file
+arrangements, described below.
@menu
* GET DATA /TYPE=TXT /ARRANGEMENT=DELIMITED::
@cmd{SAVE} causes the data to be read. It is a procedure.
+@node SAVE DATA COLLECTION
+@section SAVE DATA COLLECTION
+@vindex SAVE DATA COLLECTION
+
+@display
+SAVE DATA COLLECTION
+ /OUTFILE=@{'@var{file_name}',@var{file_handle}@}
+ /METADATA=@{'@var{file_name}',@var{file_handle}@}
+ /@{UNCOMPRESSED,COMPRESSED,ZCOMPRESSED@}
+ /PERMISSIONS=@{WRITEABLE,READONLY@}
+ /DROP=@var{var_list}
+ /KEEP=@var{var_list}
+ /VERSION=@var{version}
+ /RENAME=(@var{src_names}=@var{target_names})@dots{}
+ /NAMES
+ /MAP
+@end display
+
+Like @cmd{SAVE}, @cmd{SAVE DATA COLLECTION} writes the dictionary and
+data in the active dataset to a system file. In addition, it writes
+metadata to an additional XML metadata file.
+
+OUTFILE is required. Specify the system file to be written as a
+string file name or a file handle (@pxref{File Handles}).
+
+METADATA is also required. Specify the metadata file to be written as
+a string file name or a file handle. Metadata files customarily use a
+@file{.mdd} extension.
+
+The current implementation of this command only outputs an
+approximation of the metadata file format. Please report bugs.
+
+Other subcommands are optional. They have the same meanings as in the
+@cmd{SAVE} command.
+
+@cmd{SAVE DATA COLLECTION} causes the data to be read. It is a
+procedure.
+
@node SAVE TRANSLATE
@section SAVE TRANSLATE
@vindex SAVE TRANSLATE
numeric user-missing values like system-missing values and string
user-missing values as all spaces.
-By default, all the variables in the active dataset dictionary are saved
-to the system file, but @subcmd{DROP} or @subcmd{KEEP} can select a subset of variable
-to save. The @subcmd{RENAME} subcommand can also be used to change the names
-under which variables are saved. @subcmd{UNSELECTED} determines whether cases
-filtered out by the @cmd{FILTER} command are written to the output file.
-These subcommands have the same syntax and meaning as on the
-@cmd{SAVE} command (@pxref{SAVE}).
+By default, all the variables in the active dataset dictionary are
+saved to the system file, but @subcmd{DROP} or @subcmd{KEEP} can
+select a subset of variable to save. The @subcmd{RENAME} subcommand
+can also be used to change the names under which variables are saved;
+because they are used only in the output, these names do not have to
+conform to the usual PSPP variable naming rules. @subcmd{UNSELECTED}
+determines whether cases filtered out by the @cmd{FILTER} command are
+written to the output file. These subcommands have the same syntax
+and meaning as on the @cmd{SAVE} command (@pxref{SAVE}).
Each supported file type has additional subcommands, explained in
separate sections below.
/MAP
@end display
-The @cmd{EXPORT} transformation writes the active dataset dictionary and
+The @cmd{XEXPORT} transformation writes the active dataset dictionary and
data to a specified portable file.
This transformation is a @pspp{} extension.
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