Minor additions and updates to the meta documentation

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index cbe5fd2b2c586fb5f9d23e3c28651fb7f934978f..093138be4572ceeef3b087e08943e2dc7267fa6c 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -17,9 +17,16 @@ the following simple procedure should work, even on non-GNU systems:
  sudo make install
 
 Obviously, you should replace 'pspp-*' in the above, with the name of
-the tarball you are installing.  If any part of this process fails, then 
-it's likely that one or more of the necessary prerequisites is missing
-from your system.   Read on to find out how to correct this.
+the tarball you are installing.  
+
+In 99% of cases, that is all you have to do - FINISHED! 
+
+
+If any part of the above process fails, then it is
+likely that one or more of the necessary prerequisites is missing
+from your system.  The following paragraphs contain highly detailed
+information which will help you fix this.
+
 
 Before You Install
 ==================
@@ -35,7 +42,7 @@ not present on your system.
 
 The following packages are required to install PSPP:
 
-    * An ANSI C compiler and tool chain.  On Unix-like systems, we
+    * A C compiler and tool chain.  On Unix-like systems, we
       recommend GCC, but any modern compilation environment should
       work.  On Microsoft Windows, Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/) and
       MinGW (http://www.mingw.org/) are known to work.
@@ -56,7 +63,8 @@ The following packages are required to install PSPP:
 
 The following packages are required to enable PSPP's graphing
 features.  If you cannot arrange to install them, you must run
-`configure' with --without-cairo.
+`configure' with --without-cairo (in which case you will get no graphing
+capability).
 
     * Cairo (http://cairographics.org/), version 1.5 or later.
 
@@ -70,25 +78,27 @@ use the GUI, you must run `configure' with --without-gui.
       0.18 and 0.19 have a bug that will prevent library detection,
       but other versions should be fine.
 
-    * GTK+ (http://www.gtk.org/), version 2.16.0 or later.
+    * GTK+ (http://www.gtk.org/), version 2.16.0 or later.  However
+      it must be Gtk+ 2.something  - The Gtk+-3.x series will NOT work!
 
     * GtkSourceView (http://projects.gnome.org/gtksourceview/) 
       version 2.2 or later.
 
+The following packages are optional:
 
-Installing the following packages will allow your PSPP binary to read
+Installing the following packages will allow your PSPP program to read
 Gnumeric files.
 
     * zlib (http://www.zlib.net/).
 
     * libxml2 (http://xmlsoft.org/).  
 
-Installing the following packages will allow your PSPP binary to write
+Installing the following packages will allow your PSPP program to write
 OpenDocument text (ODT) files:
 
     * libxml2 (http://xmlsoft.org/).  
 
-The following packages are optional.
+Other optional packages:
 
     * libncurses (http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/).  Without it,
       PSPP will assume it is running in an 80x25 terminal.
@@ -276,7 +286,7 @@ Optional Features
    This option is useful for building a package which can be installed
    into an arbitrary directory and freely copied to any other directory.
    If you use this option, you will probably want to install the pspp
-   with a command similar to "make install DESTDIR=<distination>".
+   with a command similar to "make install DESTDIR=<destination>".
 
 Defining Variables
 ==================
@@ -335,7 +345,7 @@ Generic `configure' Options
 `configure --help' for more details.
 
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2007 Free
+Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2013 Free
 Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 This file is free documentation; the Free Software Foundation gives

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 3685d9e2a4dae9e6c0f705316d72cb11f2b26371..ee9a73f07100428668b8994379ede0c5211042af 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -97,6 +97,9 @@ Changes from 0.6.2 to 0.7.10:
      argument.  This means that on a properly configured desktop, double
      clicking on an icon will open the file.
 
+   - Foreign formats, such as Gnumeric, OpenDocument and CSV can be imported
+     via using an "intelligent" application assistant dialog.
+
  * Output changes:
 
    - The new "cairo" output driver supports output in PostScript, PDF,

diff --git a/README b/README
index bf3d903f63e8c4207f84f2dbae9083a18d10ccbc..1e95af1e902c5d96a55f5717c44d6e51fc9d9c9d 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -2,9 +2,10 @@ PSPP is a program for statistical analysis of sampled data.  It is
 a free replacement for the proprietary program SPSS.
 
 PSPP supports T-tests, ANOVA and GLM analyses, factor analysis,
-non-parametric tests, and other statistical features.  PSPP produces
-statistical reports in plain text, PDF, PostScript, CSV, HTML, SVG,
-and OpenDocument formats.
+non-parametric tests, linear and logistic regression, clustering, 
+and other statistical features.  PSPP produces statistical reports in
+plain text, PDF, PostScript, CSV, HTML, SVG, and OpenDocument formats.
+It can import data from OpenDocument, Gnumeric, text and SPSS formats.
 
 PSPP has both text-based and graphical user interfaces.  The PSPP
 user interface has been translated into a number of languages.
@@ -17,7 +18,7 @@ For information on differences from previous versions, please see file
 NEWS.  
           
 Source code for the latest release of PSPP is available at
-ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/pspp/.  Older versions may be obtained from
+ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/pspp/.  Test releases are at
 ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/pspp/.  Development sources are available
 at http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/pspp
 
@@ -25,7 +26,7 @@ The following miscellaneous notes apply to this release:
 
        * On a few operating systems, such as OpenBSD, some of the
           tests may fail with messages similar to: 'Warning: cannot
-          create a convertor for "646" to "UTF-8"'.  These test
+          create a converter for "646" to "UTF-8"'.  These test
           failures may safely be ignored.
 
 Questions and comments about using PSPP may be sent to pspp-users@gnu.org.

diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index baa4354ad4126b98fbc9c5e0242ea4280edb8314..630f4c50a08ae7e4726a245439004a1fe1e24b64 100644 (file)
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 Thanks to...
+
+     * The Gnulib team for painstaking work to enable portability.
                                        
      * David MacKenzie for writing Autoconf, the automatic configuration
        tool.
@@ -11,6 +13,6 @@ Thanks to...
 
      * François Pinard for advice on proceeding with development.
 
-     * Jim Van Zandt for Debian packaging and suggestions.
+     * Jim Van Zandt and "Bojo" for Debian packaging and suggestions.
 
      * The coordinators and translators at translationproject.org.