-Changes since 0.4.0 to 0.4.1:
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- Added support for very long string variables (over 255 bytes long).
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- Output changes:
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- * Output configuration options have changed. Please refer to the
- manual for a full description of the available options.
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- In consequence, you will need to reinstall your "devices" file.
- "make install" will do this for you.
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- * The PostScript driver now obtains font metrics from AFM files,
- instead of Groff-format metrics files. It can now embed
- PostScript fonts in its output.
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- In consequence, you will need to install an AFM file for each
- font used in PostScript output. "make install" will install AFM
- files for the standard PostScript files, including the ones that
- the PostScript driver uses by default.
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- Newly implemented commands and statistical features:
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- * CLOSE FILE HANDLE (a PSPP extension; see below).
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- * REGRESSION.
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- * XEXPORT (a PSPP extension).
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- New PSPP extension:
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- A new PSPP extension called "scratch files" has been implemented.
- A scratch file, like a system file, consists of a dictionary and
- any number of cases. Small scratch files are stored in memory;
- one that grows too large is written to disk. By default, any file
- handle whose name begins with # is assumed to refer to a scratch
- file.
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- Scratch files can be used just about anywhere a system or portable
- file can be used. Also, portable files are now allowed in most
- places that system files were allowed in previous PSPP version.
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- A new CLOSE FILE HANDLE command allows the storage associated with
- scratch files to be freed. It also allows file handles to be
- reassigned to new files.
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- For more information on scratch files, refer to the "File Handles"
- section in the PSPP manual. For specifics of what commands now
- allow what kinds of files to be specified, refer to the
- documentation on those particular commands.
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- PSPP is now able to start up and run even if it cannot find its
- configuration files.
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