Date:         Tue, 7 May 1996 16:04:09 -0500
Reply-To:     Jonathan Fry <jon@SPSS.COM>
Sender:       "SPSSX(r) Discussion" <SPSSX-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         Jonathan Fry <jon@SPSS.COM>
Organization: SPSS Inc.
Subject:      Re: Copying the 'shell' of a system file

Joanne Fennessey wrote:
>
> I need to make a copy of a system file, but empty of data.
> Is there an easy way to accomplish this?[sig snipped]
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Sure.
 
   SELECT IF 0.  /* selects no cases
   SAVE OUT="some new file name".
 
A system file must have at least one variable, but it need not have any
cases.
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Jonathan Fry
SPSS Inc.
jon@spss.com