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PyNIPS
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This is a Python library for reading data from *NIPS 360 FFS* data files.

The National Military Command System Information Processing System 360 Formatted File System (NIPS 360 FFS) was a database management system used by the United States of America Military, primarily during the Vietnam War. NIPS 360 FFS runs on the IBM System/360 mainframe computers and is based on the IBM Formatted File System (FFS).

PyNIPS is free software released under the terms of the AGPL-3.0-or-later. The source code is available on Codeberg <https://codeberg.org/ctrlall/pynips>.

Contents
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.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   install
   data_set
   records
   limitations
   validation
   nipsext


Indices and tables
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* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`search`


Acknowledgments
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This software was initially developed as part of the SNSF-Ambizione funded research project ["Computing the Social. Psychographics and Social Physics in the Digital Age"](https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/201912).