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-PSPP is a program for statistical analysis of sampled data. It
-is a free replacement for the proprietary program SPSS.
+PSPP is a program for statistical analysis of sampled data.  It is
+a free replacement for the proprietary program SPSS.
 
-PSPP development is ongoing. It already supports a large subset of
-SPSS's syntax.  Its statistical procedure support is currently
-limited, but growing.  At your option, PSPP will produce statistical
-reports in ASCII, PostScript, or HTML formats. 
+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.
+
+PSPP has both text-based and graphical user interfaces.  The PSPP
+user interface has been translated into a number of languages.
 
 Instructions for PSPP installation are in INSTALL, including a list of
 prerequisite packages and other PSPP-specific information.  Full
-documentation  on PSPP's language will be installed along with the
-programs. 
+documentation on PSPP's language is also included.
 
 For information on differences from previous versions, please see file
 NEWS.  
@@ -21,12 +23,6 @@ at http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/pspp
 
 The following miscellaneous notes apply to this release:
 
-       * If you use GCC 4.3 or later to compile PSPP, along with any
-         version of the GNU Scientific Library (GSL) released as of
-         this writing (June 2008), then you will need to specify the
-         -fgnu89-inline flag to the compiler on the "configure"
-         command line: "./configure CFLAGS=-fgnu89-inline".
-
        * 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
@@ -56,11 +52,6 @@ following support to users:
           includes the first version of PSPPIRE, the PSPP graphical
           user interface.
 
-       * Attractive output, including graphs, in a variety of human-
-          and machine-readable formats.  PSPP currently produces
-          output in ASCII, PostScript, and HTML formats.  We will
-          enhance PSPP's output formatting in the future.
-
        * Good documentation.  Currently the PSPP manual describes its
           language completely, but we would like to add information on
           how to select statistical procedures and interpret their
@@ -94,3 +85,6 @@ following:
           statistical procedures is evolving quickly enough that a
           plug-in model does not make sense.  Over the long term, it
           may make sense to introduce plug-ins.
+
+For any copyright year range specified as YYYY-ZZZZ in this package note
+that the range specifies every single year in that closed interval.