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Insert. Includes commands from the specified file.
Script. Runs the specified script file.
General Utilities
Cache. Creates a copy of the data in temporary disk space for faster processing.
Clear Transformations. Discards all data transformation commands that have accumulated since the last
procedure.
Erase. Deletes the specified file.
File Handle. Assigns a unique file handle to the specified file.
New File. Creates a blank, new active dataset.
Permissions. Changes the read/write permissions for the specified file.
Preserve. Stores current Set command specifications that can later be restored by the Restore command.
Print. Prints the values of the specified variables as text output.
Print Eject. Displays specified information at the top of a new page of the output.
Print Space. Displays blank lines in the output.
Restore. Restores Set specifications that were stored by Preserve.
Set. Customizes program default settings.
Show. Displays current settings, many of which are set by the Set command.
Subtitle. Inserts a subtitle on each page of output.
Title. Inserts a title on each page of output.
Matrix Operations
Matrix. Using matrix programs, you can write your own statistical routines in the compact language of
matrix algebra.
Matrix Data. Reads raw matrix materials and converts them to a matrix data file that can be read by
procedures that handle matrix materials.
Mconvert. Converts covariance matrix materials to correlation matrix materials or vice versa.
Output Management System
The Output Management System (OMS) provides the ability to automatically write selected categories of
output to different output files in different formats, including IBM SPSS Statistics data file format, HTML,
XML, and text.
OMS. Controls the routing and format of output. Output can be routed to external files in XML, HTML,
text, and SAV (IBM SPSS Statistics data file) formats.
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