User guide > Introduction > Recent Enhancements

Please use Companion Reflect which replaces the classic QPSMR Reflect.

Significance markers are now output to the CSV tables preceded by a space - for example now " aB", not "aB" to avoid a problem with Excel.

We recommend the use of the UNITEXT RCP for all projects.

We recommend that CL scripts are stored as UTF-8 encoded. They can be converted using Notepad.

With UNITEXT and UTF-8 scripts there is no longer any need to set the Locale in the Control Panel. CL will also work with UTF-8 set as the Locale.

The main script (with the control stage) should use the extension .stpx.

Use Companion 25.1 or above to convert CSV tables files to formatted Excel.

Use Companion 25.2 or above to run CL scripts (extended version needed).

RCP BINARYDATA should be used with ASC files if codes VX0-9 (masks) are referred to in MAKE commands or CT functions.

Most recent listed first.

25.2

P (punch) files are now output using the same encoding as the input data file(s).

25.1

25.1f. New option to identify column to use (CSV header texts) when defining variables, see CSVDATA.

25.1f. Use ~ to put M in %fsl special text.

25.1e. Any language can now be used to name files (scripts, data, output).

25.1e. Marascuilo procedure added using format SIG9.

25.1c. Additional options on the LCSV command.

(ID=text) is ignored on table redefinitions.

24.2

Format TTV5 now performs the Welch's t test for unequal variances.

Format PRO is now numeric and can show percentage significance level for format MSE (paired t test).

24.1 You can now have up to 8 levels of ranking, see <Gnx>.

RCP UNITEXT (recommended) can now be used with any data file type including binary data

CL can now handle any text in cvars, see Character data for the important difference between ASC and UNI data files.

UTF-8 encoded scripts and data files can now be used without a BOM (byte order mark).

23.2

New setting E on RCP CSV2 to output a blank for empty markers.

New RCP BINARYDATA which tells CL that the data files will be in binary format.

23.1

New RCP MARKERSEP which puts a dot between significance markers and sets the maximum characters in column identifiers.

Allows up to 4 character column identifiers. See Format SHG for information about column identifiers.

The following file extensions should now be used for CL script files:

.stpx for the main CL script which contains the control stage.

.stp for [*insert] CL scripts.

22.2

If using Companion to convert tables to formatted Excel, use RCP CSV2I... to output Information lines. These will be used by Companion to control the cell formats used in Excel.