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*G7*: New for 2008
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Work in 2008 focused on fixing bugs and adding a few useful features. In addition, these *G7* Help files and the `G7 Reference Manual <http://inforumweb.inforumecon.com/software/g7.html>`_ Reference Manual have been extended and updated. This new documentation better describes the capabilities of *G7* and guides the model builder through difficult steps of data development. Please find a full report on recent improvemnets written by Ronald Horst, entitled `A Software Development Summary for the 2008 Inforum World Conference <http://inforumweb.inforumecon.com/papers/conferences/2008/Horst2008.pdf>`_, on the `Inforum web site <http://inforumweb.inforumecon.com>`_. Finally, we launched a new section of the Inforum web site to host demo scripts and how-to files for *G7*.

New features for *G7* include:

- New *G7* functions and features: *@<high>to<low>*, *@<high>to<low>e*, *@<high>to<low>s*, *@<high>to<low>max*, *@<high>to<low>min*, *@bmk*, and *@hpfilter*.

- Several powerful extensions to the *vmake* command.

- Improved *fadd* command: the maximum number of arguments for the *fadd* command has been increased, along with other improvements.

- New *if-else* tests and other flow control capabilities.