Subject: Release announcement

From: Jakson Aquino <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 14:15:15 -0300

STATIST - 1.3.0			Date: 08 Aug 2005
===============

  Statist 1.3.0. will be released in a few days.
  Statist is a small and portable statistics
  program written in C. It is terminal-based, but
  can utilise Gnuplot for plotting purposes. It
  can be run in scripts, and big datasets are
  handled reasonably well on small machines. It is
  also easy to use due to its interactive menu,
  being a very handy tool also for those who do
  not use statistics every day.

THE DOCUMENTATION
=================

  The statist user manual is available in both
  English and Portuguese.  The German
  documentation is partially outdated, but it
  contains information about the statistical
  functions and the way the program works that are
  not covered by the new user manual.

REQUIREMENTS
============

  Statist is very portable. It can be compiled in
  pratically any system with any C compiler.
  However, Statist needs Gnuplot to create
  graphics, and the system must have libintl and
  libiconv to compile the program with support for
  languages other than English and German.

  Some GNU core utils -- gawk and sort -- are
  useful programs to prepare databases for use
  with Statist.

DISTRIBUTION
============

  Statist source code and pre-compiled binaries
  can be found at:

  http://www.usf.uos.de/~breiter/tools/statist/index.en.html

NEW FEATURES IN VERSION 1.3.0
=============================

  - Gettext support, with message catalogs for
    German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.

  - English and Portuguese documentation.

  - The use of the option -delrow was replaced
    with a new system. Now, the rows are deleted
    during analyzes (when necessary), and we are
    using the smallest double number as missing
    value. It was necessary a lot of data
    manipulation to do some analyzes with the old
    system.

  - Added new features: (1) extract columns from
    fixed width data file; (2) extract a sample of
    rows from a file; and (3) recode a Statist
    data file.

  - Small adaptions in the code to keep it
    compiling on DOS/Windows.  Gettext support is
    possible if compiled with MinGW or CygWin. The
    use of pipes is possible with pgnuplot, which
    is part of new versions of gnuplot.

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