Descriptives: Large Numbers and Variable Labels

[Eliana]

Hello,

I am very new to PSPP, and need help getting some basic things to
work.  I am excited to have found a free package I can run that is so
basically simple to use.    I am running version 0.7.8 on Fedora 12 on
the command line.

I am working with DNA data, with START and STOP being precise
locations on a chromosome, up  to 9 digits.  My basic input starts
with the following:

 GET DATA /TYPE=TXT   /FILE='my.csv'   /ARRANGEMENT=DELIMITED
/DELIMITERS="," /FIRSTCASE=2  /VARIABLES=
 NAME1 A30
 NAME2 A30
 CHROM F2
 START  F9
 STOP F9
 SIZE  F5.2
 SNPS  F4.

My data looks like this:

NAME,MATCHNAME,CHROMOSOME,START LOCATION,END LOCATION,CENTIMORGANS,MATCHING SNPS
John Adams,Sam Jones,1,179653274,202477373,20.82,5100
John Adams,George Smith,1,233181217,245329248,25.87,3742

When I run DESCRIPTIVES, the MINIMUM and MAXIMUM are indicated in
scientific notation rather than the precise values that I need for
START and STOP.  I have not been able to figure out how to change that
to the F9.0 output format I need.   Unless I missed it, the largest
range size field for all operations seems to be F8.2 from what I see
in the manual,  that is not working for my data set that requires F9.

DESCRIPTIVES
             /VARIABLES=CHROM START STOP  SIZE  SNPS
             /FORMAT=LABELS
             /STATISTICS=ALL.

I also expect to be creating variables containing the midpoint of
START and STOP using COMPUTE, and if I want to look at statistics or
print those, something like F11.2 will be needed.

I also have not found a way to get variable labels into the descriptives output.

Here is what I would like that creates error messages wherever I put
it.  I have tried with and without the slash before NAME1.

  VARIABLE LABELS
             /NAME1 'PRIMARY KIT'
             /NAME2 'MATCH NAME'

Where do Variable Labels statements go?  I have not been able to find
an example anywhere.

Thank so much,
Eliana