Hints ----- Quantum is a registered trademark of SPSS Inc. Headquarters, 233 S Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL 60606 Installation on Linux Systems ----------------------------- - Download the gzipped tarball ccount-linux2.x.tgz from http://pan-data.dyndns.org/ccount/ - Change to an appropriate directory Example: cd /usr - Copy the tarball to this directory - Unpack the tarball with "tar xzvf ccount-linux2.x.tgz" - Change to your home directory and edit the .profile - Insert the following lines at the end of .profile (assuming /usr is supposed to be the top directory of ccount): CCHOME=/usr/ccount PATH=$PATH:$CCHOME/bin export CCHOME PATH Note: x means the current version number 2.2, 2.3 or so. - logout and login again to activate the changes in .profile - That's all for installation of CCOUNT! Usage ----- The usage is pretty similar to quantum. For running a program against data, open a console and type: "ccount PROGRAM-NAME DATAFILE" Example: ccount cleanprog.q DATA01 For a complete list of options, please refer to http://pan-data.dyndns.org/ccount/docs/commands.txt RELIABILITY ----------- CCOUNT is well tested in practice and the CCOUNT data code is absolutely identical to Quantum. Nevertheless, we must mention that the usage of CCOUNT is at your own risk. A few examples of differences to Quantum ---------------------------------------- - The online edit function in CCOUNT works a bit different from Quantum. It records all changes and when rerunning the job it's re-reading the record file and perform all changes up to that point. The only precondition is the data file must be sorted by no. of household or any alternate unique record number. Even if you add some additional records it doesn't matter if they are just sorted by a unique no. If you're using the online edit function at all and want to know how it works send me a mail. This function has some build-in commands such as "di c(x,y)" for displaying data on screen and other commands for changing the content of columns and/or column ranges. - The write function is able to write any data variables. Example: "write output.dat v(101,180)". It's helpful for column recoding tasks. - Ccount edit section contains a "display" and "singe"/"multi" command to work as data entry tool. It produces native quantum code and will offer a flexible and controled possibility to perform a clean data entry. If you are interested in how it works let me know and I'll send you an example programm. - Ccount can produce semicolon separated tables for import to EXCEL and html tables for web presentations. The Quantum mtw and mtr has been replaced with "ccrw" which can be used to both, create and read Quantum, EBCDIC, IBM 360 Column binary etc. For a brief listing of syntax, please type "ccrw". MISC ---- Currently not all functions of Quantum are available in CCOUNT. The edit section should be nearly completed. The tab section is missing some important features for example grid axis, sort, advanced statistical calculations and others. Apart from this the tab section only works with NXX (n01, n10, n25, n12 ...) commands. You can find a list of all available CCOUNT commands at http://pan-data.dyndns.org/ccount/docs/commands.txt HELP ---- Since our time is very restricted, it would be great if someone could help us to improve CCOUNT by programming additional features. If you are interested just let me know by sending a mail to . That's all folks - enjoy!!! Volker