Dear ASReml user,

These notes refer to release 1.10

This is a 'release' version to replace version 1.00.  
The file 'asreml110.exe' should be copied to "c:\Program files\asreml\bin"
Rename the existing asreml.exe as ASREML100.exe.
Then copy ASREML110.EXE ASREML.EXE.
The enclosed SETUP.BAT file attempts to do this.



This release has some enhancements over release 1.00 which listed below.

Notice that developments to ASReml often generate bugs so that all 
versions should be used with care and results checked for reasonableness.
Bugs that have been fixed are not documented here.  

Arthur.Gilmour@agric.nsw.gov.au   15 July 2003

Commmand line Options:
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A new command line option -A
has been added to make life easier in a Windows environment.
The -A option prompts for an option string and arguments string.
If used in the command line invoked when an .as file is clicked,
the user has the opportunity to supply the appropriate command line
settings interactively.

Data file line qualifiers
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!BRIEF   suppresses some of the information written to the .asr file.
The data summary and regression coefficient estimates are suppressed.
This qualifier should not be used for initial runs of a job.
Use !BRIEF 2 to cause the predicted values to be written to the .asr file 
instead of the .pvs file.

The qualifier may be set with the B command line option.

!SCREEN qualifier a Regression Screen, a form of all subsets regression.
It produces a report to the .asr file showing the sums of squares attributable
to each submodel including up to six of up to 20 terms in the DENSE equations.
Use the !DENSE qualifier to control which terms are screened.  The screen
is conditional on all other terms (those in the SPARSE equations) being present.

!SPATIAL  increases the amount of information reported on the residuals
obtained from the analysis of a two dimensional field trial.  The information
is written to the .res file.

!SUM     causes ASReml to report a general analysis of the distribution
of the data.  The information is written to the .ass  file.

!TWOWAY  modifies the appearance of the variogram calculated from
the residuals obtained from a two dimensional field trial.  The 
default form combines NE and NW heights into an average value.
The new form plats NE and NW distances separately.

New Model terms.
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gt(F,n) and lt(F,n) create binary covariates indicating whether the level code
for factor  F  is greater (less) than the argument  n.  There are similar to
at(F,n) which indicates whether the level code equals  n.

New variance models:
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Autogressive models have beed extended to include  AR3  and SAR2.
SAR2 is a constrained form of AR3 which represents the situation
of competition from neighbouring plots plus general spatial correlation.

CHOLnC  is an alternative zeroed form of CHOLn defining a reuced cholesky 
factorization.  CHOL models use structure V=LDL' where L has 1.0 on the diagonal,
zeros above the diagonal, D is diagonal.  CHOL1 extends this by setting
lower triangle elements of L to zero except the first off diagonal band.
CHOL1C extends this by setting lower triangle elements of L to zero except
 the first column of L.  The CHOLnC form is somewhat similar to a
Factor Analytic model.


Variance model qualifiers
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Variance model != qualifier extention 
Fixed bug in != qualifier and extended it as follows
	Extended syntax as follows:
	1-9 different from a-z different from A-Z [0 and . mean unconstrained]
	Allow colon to generate sequence  a:e is the same as abcde
	!=$..  Means code is absolute and can be used to equate across structures
	!=* indicates special form where numbers are repeat counts and
	    A-Z are equality codes, . is unconstrained [!=*.3A2. same as !=0AAA00