Re: what essential GUI pieces are left?

[Ben Pfaff]

Jason Stover <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 01:40:45PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>> Jason Stover <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > I was just using pspp to check some students' data and thought of
>> > something that would be very useful and not (I think) too difficult:
>> > an easy way to save data as a delimited text file, through the
>> > gui. Not having this has turned into a serious frustration.
>>...
>> I can't find command syntax to do this.  Are you aware of any?
>> Perhaps it should be a new command, or it could be GUI-only,
>> without any corresponding syntax (though this would be useful
>> through syntax also).
>
> No, and that's what was so frustrating. I was struggling with the
> PRINT, LIST and WRITE commands to get them to do what I needed, but
> there wasn't any easy way that only took a glance at the manual.  The
> behavior of these commands seems to violate the law of least
> astonishment, too. Not that we can do anything about that since it's
> the other program's weird behavior that we have to mimic.

OK.

What would the opposite of GET DATA be?  "PUT DATA" perhaps?
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