Notes about the BOOTSAMP utilities July 10, 1996 BOOTSAMP.EXE is the original bootstrapping utility. It has a limit of 30 variables, and 10,000 cases. Also, if you have data values larger than 99 or less than -9, in the dataset, it will produce errors. Although the program reads data in with free format, it writes data out with F12.8 format. BOOTSMP3.EXE is the updated bootstrapping utility. It uses free format for input and uses an output format of F16.8. The revised utility also allows for 100 variables, and 10,000 cases.