X-Git-Url: https://pintos-os.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fdev%2Fsystem-file-format.texi;h=17f5c1450fa0be9e996e3d47b79c5de6e96c4e34;hb=2569c1e25ddb52f847e688c6b15f1d6c3bb66f28;hp=500d74f66556fcff16d9ef14cf547a2375b8ee2e;hpb=bcac9faa921fc6902abf6fbf4743f661fc8a5375;p=pspp diff --git a/doc/dev/system-file-format.texi b/doc/dev/system-file-format.texi index 500d74f665..17f5c1450f 100644 --- a/doc/dev/system-file-format.texi +++ b/doc/dev/system-file-format.texi @@ -1,3 +1,13 @@ +@c PSPP - a program for statistical analysis. +@c Copyright (C) 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +@c Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document +@c under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 +@c or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; +@c with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. +@c A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU +@c Free Documentation License". +@c + @node System File Format @appendix System File Format @@ -6,7 +16,7 @@ that describes how they may be interpreted. This chapter describes the format of a system file. System files use four data types: 8-bit characters, 32-bit integers, -64-bit integers, +64-bit integers, and 64-bit floating points, called here @code{char}, @code{int32}, @code{int64}, and @code{flt64}, respectively. Data is not necessarily aligned on a word @@ -548,7 +558,7 @@ The value label record has the following format: int32 rec_type; int32 label_count; -/* @r{Repeated @code{label_cnt} times}. */ +/* @r{Repeated @code{n_label} times}. */ char value[8]; char label_len; char label[]; @@ -991,18 +1001,24 @@ members are as follows: @table @code @item int32 measure; -The measurement type of the variable: +The measurement level of the variable: @table @asis +@item 0 +Unknown @item 1 -Nominal Scale +Nominal @item 2 -Ordinal Scale +Ordinal @item 3 -Continuous Scale +Scale @end table -SPSS sometimes writes a @code{measure} of 0. PSPP interprets this as -nominal scale. +An ``unknown'' @code{measure} of 0 means that the variable was created +in some way that doesn't make the measurement level clear, e.g.@: with +a @code{COMPUTE} transformation. PSPP sets the measurement level the +first time it reads the data using the rules documented in +@ref{Measurement Level,,,pspp, PSPP Users Guide}, so this should +rarely appear. @item int32 width; The width of the display column for the variable in characters. @@ -1508,7 +1524,8 @@ the following believed meanings: @table @asis @item 5 -A set of grouped variables (according to Aapi H@"am@"al@"ainen). +A named variable set for use in the GUI (according to Aapi +H@"am@"al@"ainen). @item 6 Date info, probably related to USE (according to Aapi H@"am@"al@"ainen). @@ -1641,7 +1658,7 @@ The number of bytes in the ZLIB data trailer. This and the previous field sum to the size of the system file in bytes. @end table -The data header is followed by @code{(ztrailer_ofs - 24) / 24} ZLIB +The data header is followed by @code{(ztrailer_len - 24) / 24} ZLIB compressed data blocks. Each ZLIB compressed data block begins with a ZLIB header as specified in RFC@tie{}1950, e.g.@: hex bytes @code{78 01} (the only header yet observed in practice). Each block @@ -1678,7 +1695,7 @@ been observed so far. @item int32 n_blocks; The number of ZLIB compressed data blocks, always exactly -@code{(ztrailer_ofs - 24) / 24}. +@code{(ztrailer_len - 24) / 24}. @end table The fixed header is followed by @code{n_blocks} 24-byte ZLIB data