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Full details of utilities.
A complete run down of all 24 programs in the suite.

SWB for CATI sites.
A note on the SWB utilities of interest to CATI units.

Technical Information.
Machines supported and development plans

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DELIMITED DATA HANDLING Nowadays a lot more data is being delivered in a delimited format e.g. Excel or SPSS. If you require fixed-format data we have a number of tools to work with field data and convert it. Fixcel will scan a delimited file, calculate the width required for each field and write out a data set and column map. Getfield will let you pull out fields selectively and reformat them and Fldc will tell you all you need to know about a delimited file.

TABLE DELIVERY Our RTF program is a real bonus for people who need to deliver ASCII tables to customers. It automatically determines the optimum point size by scanning your tables and writes out a file in Rich-Text-Format that can be loaded into Word or any RTF-compatible Word processor for viewing. It also converts line-feed format underlining into correct underlining. This can save you and your client lots of time when delivering tables.

If you only want to work with specific pages the Findpg and Getpage utilities will let you extract tables based on specific strings or page numbers for viewing or printing.

IMPROVEMENTS TO DATA HANDLING All the data reading utilities now recognise a start-up file defining the data structure. There is no need to re-specify serial number or card number fields every time. On Unix the data tools will recognise and read compressed files directly. Lookup and Snip now work with Quantum multi-punch data and not just ASCII.

REAL HOLE COUNTS OF DIFFERENCES Hcnt will now read 2 data files simultaneously and count the differences. This can be extremely useful for checking the extent of changes to a data file pre- and post-edit.

CROSS TABULATION UTILITY Xtab is a new utility for performing basic cross-tab checks on data. You can tabulate individual columns, numeric data and string fields. There are also facilities for specifying text if necessary. This can be very useful for quick top-line results

FILE PRINTING UTILITY Pf will print all types of ASCII files to PostScript printers. Pf will print in landscape or portrait and can automatically scale tables to fit correctly on a page. There is no need to specify page dimensions or limit yourself to specific printer set-ups.