[Gretl-users] new in CVS

There are few small new things in gretl CVS and snapshots that I haven't had time to document yet, but that people might like to try. Here's a listing: * All single-equation estimation commands now support a new option --window (or just -w). The effect is that if such a command is executed via the console or script in the GUI program, the estimates are (besides being printed) displayed in a window of their own. This is similar to the effect you could get previously by doing, for example foo <- ols y 0 X foo.show The differences are (a) that -w is much easier to type and (b) the model is not automatically saved "as an icon", though you can do that via the File menu in the model window if you want. * The GUI command log (available via /Tools/Command log) now updates itself in real time: if you keep it open you'll see the CLI equivalent of GUI actions appear line by line. (Thanks to Jack for suggesting this.) * The GUI "console" now supports parenthesis matching. * There's a new boolean "set" variable named "robust_z". It's "off" by default, but if you do "set robust_z on" then whenever a model is eatimated with the --robust option the "t-ratios" will be labeled "z" and the associated p-values will be taken from the normal distribution. * RTF output (no doubt mostly of interest to users on Windows): non-ASCII characters are now encoded using "\u<UC>" where <UC> is the Unicode code-point (rather than attempting to recode to the legacy Microsoft per-country "code-pages"). This should mean that international text and symbols come out right in a greater variety of conditions. Allin Cottrell