SPSS Programming and Data Management, 4th Edition: A Guide for ...

5Best Practices and Efficiency Tipsthen copy and paste the commands from the Viewer into a syntax window or texteditor. This setting persists across sessions, so you have to specify it only once.• Retrieve commands from the journal file. Most actions that you perform in thegraphical user interface (and all commands that you run from a command syntaxwindow) are automatically recorded in the journal file in the form of commandsyntax. The default name of the journal file is spss.jnl. The default location varies,depending on your operating system. Both the name and location of the journal fileare displayed on the General tab in the Options dialog box (Edit menu, Options).Running SPSS CommandsOnce you have a set of commands, you can run the commands in a number of ways:• Highlight the commands that you want to run in a command syntax window andclick the Run button.• Invoke one command file from another with the INCLUDE or INSERT command.For more information, see UsingINSERTwithaMasterCommandSyntaxFileon p. 19.• Use the Production Facility to create production jobs that can run unattended andeven start unattended (and automatically) using common scheduling software. Seethe Help system for more information about the Production Facility.• Use SPSSB (available only with the server version) to run command files from acommand line and automatically route results to different output destinations indifferent formats. See the SPSSB documentation supplied with the SPSS serversoftware for more information.