EASISTAT reads and writes three kinds of files. These are data files, output files and command files. Command files are sometimes also referred to as input files.
Data files
Output files
Command files
Data can be stored in these files by EASISTAT, and EASISTAT can read data files either that it has written itself or that have been produced by another program such as a spreadsheet or text editor. The command used to read a data file is DATA, and to save a data file DATA SAVE is used. Please see the section on the DATA command for details of the format of data files, and how to transfer files from e.g. Excel.
These are files containing the results of EASISTAT's statistical tests, or anything else which you ask the program to write out. They contain copies of all the output which appears on screen. They are created with the OUTPUT command, so please see the section on this command for details.
These contain lists of commands for EASISTAT to perform, just as if you were typing in those commands at the keyboard. They are read using the INPUT command and can be written using a text editor. A command file can also be read in when EASISTAT is first run - of the see the section above on "command line parameters". Command files are a powerful facility of EASISTAT allowing you to run long statistical analyses automatically from a series of commands that you have prepared in advance, and also make it possible to run EASISTAT from within MS-DOS batch files and Unix scripts.