HI or HIGHEST may take the place of num2.
@end display
-@cmd{MISSING VALUES} sets user-missing values for numeric and
-short string variables. Long string variables may not have missing
-values.
+@cmd{MISSING VALUES} sets user-missing values for numeric and string
+variables. Long string variables may have missing values, but
+characters after the first 8 bytes of the missing value must be
+spaces.
Specify a list of variables, followed by a list of their user-missing
values in parentheses. Up to three discrete values may be given, or,