ChangeLog for statistics
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Version 1.3 - 2018-02-13 (EO)
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	+ This is a new major version of this package including a new GNU
	Public License Text disclaimer required to distribute the SAS source
	code to the Astronomical Community under the terms of the GNU Public
	License. The text as it is shown below is the same that has been 
	included in all SAS source code files.

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	This file is part of ESA's XMM-Newton Scientific Analysis System
	(SAS).

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Version 1.2.1 - 2009-09-01 (AI)
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	+  fixes to make gcc-4.3 happy
	
Version 1.2 - 2003-06-16 (GV)
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	+ Misc. fixes to make gcc-3.3 happy: include <cassert> and/or
	proper initialization of base classes.

Version 1.1 - 2002-05-13 (GV)
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	+ Updated for param 2.0
	
Version 1.0.1 - 2002-02-08 (GV)
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	+ Fix parameter file (new param rejected it because of mode = a)

Version 1.0 - 2001-12-18 (GV)
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	+ Re-upload as 1.0, fix c++ headers.
	
Version 0.16   - 2000-07-19 (HS)
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	+ (test/testTableStatistics.cc): No longer uses DataFilter::RowRange struct

Version 0.15.3 - 2000-06-28 (HS)
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	+ (src): Moved code from .h to .cc files
	+ (src/Statistic.h, Statistic.cc): Added new constructor to handle a Column object as an argument

Version 0.15.2 - 2000-06-28 (HS)
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	+ (doc/statistics_description.tex): improved documentation (SOC-SPR-1622, SOC-SPR-1297)
	+ (doc/Makefile, doc/statsget_description.dex): Created a new task description for task and added it to Makefile. (SOC-SPR-1624).

Version 0.15.1 - 2000-06-22 (HS)
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	+ (config/Makefile, config/statsget.info): Created statsget.info file and added it to Makefile. (SOC-SPR-1533).
	+ (config/Makefile): added .lyt file (SOC-SPR-1611)
	
Version 0.15 - 2000-04-25 (GV)
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	+ DEPEND: add taskmain

Version 0.14 2000-01-27
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+ improved statsget parameter interface and functionality.

Version 0.13 1999-11-22
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- Now compatible with dal-1.86

Version 0.12 1999-05-21
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- Now compatible with error-1.18

Version 0.11 1999-03-04
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- Now compatible with selectlib-4.0

Version 0.10 1999-02-23
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- Now compatible with dal-1.43

Version 0.9 1999-02-15 (MB)
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- made functions in header files inline.

Version 0.8 1999-02-11 (MB)
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- added #include "statsget.h" for sas-1.82.

Version 0.7
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- Made compatible with egcs-1.1.1

Version 0.6
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- fixed missing config in toplevel Makefile.

Version 0.5
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- Using a '#' to terminate lines in config/Makefile causes runtime problems; thus ALL '#' which terminate lines were removed from Makefiles.

Version 0.4
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- Fix to test harness, which failed because the program 
	binarytablefilegenerate was required to be in the path; 
	the fix was simply to prepend the binary.. call with './' .

Version 0.3
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- Minor update: removed commented-out lines in Statistic.h as one of those
	comment lines contains a continuation character, which confuses the
	GNUJ compiler.

Version 0.2
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- Improved statistics library and added new task, statsget, which returns statistical information about specified columns in a given file.

- Directory structure created by pkgmaker.

Version 0.1
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- Initial version of statistics library, providing functions to determine statistical information (min/max/mean/std. dev) on DAL table column data.