Persons to be deleted or selected can be entered interactively by setting PDELQU=Y. If you specify this, you will be asked if you want to delete any persons. If you respond "yes", it will ask if you want to read these deleted persons from a file; if you answer "yes" it will ask for the file name and process that file in the same manner as if PDFILE= had been specified. If you answer "no", you will be asked to enter the sequence number or numbers of persons to be deleted or selected one line at a time, following the rules specified for IDFILE=. When you are finished, enter a zero.

 

Example: You are doing a number of analyses, deleting a few, but different, persons each analysis. You don't want to create a lot of small delete files, but rather just enter the numbers at the terminal, so specify:

  PDELQU=Y

 

You want to delete persons 23 and 50.

WINSTEPS asks you:

DO YOU WANT TO DELETE ANY PERSONS? 

respond YES(Enter)

DO YOU WISH TO READ THE DELETED PERSONS FROM A FILE? 

respond NO(Enter)

INPUT PERSON TO DELETE (0 TO END): 

respond 23(Enter) (the first person to be deleted)

INPUT PERSON TO DELETE (0 TO END): 50(Enter)

INPUT PERSON TO DELETE (0 TO END): 0(Enter) (to end deletion)