After a successful SEEDIS data extraction you will have a data file codata.dat.
In the VMS computer where SEEDIS runs there are data conversion utilities known as CODATA tools.
After you have obtained the file codata.dat , leave SEEDIS and (optionally) run one or more of the data conversion utilities. In the following examples the characters "<" and "" are to be typed exactly as shown, with no space between those characters and the following file name. Except for codata.dat the file names are arbitrary.
You can use SNDMSG to mail the output files to any Internet address, or KERMIT or FTP to download the files to your own computer.
cosplit <codata.dat temp.nar temp.ddf >temp.dat
splits codata.dat into three parts: temp.nar is a one-line file containing the number of rows (geographic areas); temp.ddf is a data description file describing the columns (data elements) in each row; and temp.df is a rectangular fixed-format data file suitable for printing or as input to a user-provided program.
ddffmt <codata.dat >temp.fmt
writes to temp.fmt a FORTRAN format statement suitable for reading temp.df.
coname <codata.dat >temp.nam coname -h <codata.dat >temp.nam
writes to temp.nam the names of the columns (data elements) in each record; the second form provides descriptive headers also.
cosas <codata.dat >temp.sas
produces a file temp.sas which can be used as input to SAS.
cospss <codata.dat >temp.sps
produces a file temp.sps which can be used as input to SPSS-X.
cosplus codata.dat
produces a file seedis.s which can be used as input to SPLUS.
For more information, type
coman coman
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