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Add enough new content to be able to write a SAS7BDAT#19
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It: - Provides a page number sequence that is >256 pages long. - Documents more fields on the SAS7BDAT header and Row Size subheader. - Documents more name flags in the Column Attributes subheader. - Documents the ordering/padding rules for how columns are pysically laid out in a data row. - Documents the ordering of the page types: meta* - mix? - data* - amd? - Includes information about the "deleted flags" that appears after the packed binary data. - Generalizes the concept of a "text reference" and its usage in other subheaders. - Introduces the concept of a "subheader reference". - Adds some more observations to the Column List subheader, although not enough to explain it. - Documents the location of width/digits for FORMAT to "Column Format and Label subheader". - Adds information for the INFORMAT to "Column Format and Label subheader". It also includes some minor consistency fixes, like standardizing on the use of the term "meta-information".
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1. Provides a page number sequence that is >256 pages long. 2. Documents more fields on the SAS7BDAT header and Row Size subheader. 3. Documents more name flags in the Column Attributes subheader. 4. Documents the ordering/padding rules for how columns are pysically laid out in a data row. 5. Documents the ordering of the page types: meta* - mix? - data* - amd? 6. Includes information about the "deleted flags" that appears after the packed binary data. 7. Generalizes the concept of a "text reference" and its usage in other subheaders. 8. Introduces the concept of a "subheader reference". 9. Adds some more observations to the Column List subheader, although not enough to explain it. 10. Documents the location of width/digits for FORMAT to "Column Format and Label subheader". 11. Adds information for the INFORMAT to "Column Format and Label subheader". 12. It also includes some minor consistency fixes, like standardizing on the use of the term "meta-information". This is identical to a PR submitted to the source repository: BioStatMatt#19
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This was to get BioStatMatt#19. I have since moved the files which were modified by that PR, so I removed the changes. However, since I had authored the PR, the changes in it have already been included in sas7bdat.rst and several mistakes in the PR have since been fixed. The end result of this merge is that this fork accepted nothing from the upstream form. The primary reason for doing this so that GitHub stops showing that this fork is behind the upstream fork.
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The change adds enough new content to be able to write a SAS7BDAT. It:
It also includes some minor consistency fixes, like standardizing on the use of the term "meta-information".