When a command is launched
| `0' set to contain the
|-----------------------------------| line exactly as typed
. <command> <thing1> <thing2> ... <thingk>
| | | | |
| | | | +--> `<k+1>' set to contain ""
| | | | (nothing)
| | | |
| | | +--> `<k>' set to contain "<thingk>"
| | |
| | |
| | +--> `2' set to contain "<thing2>"
| |
| +--> `1' set to contain "<thing1>"
| |----------------------------------------------------|
| |
| |
| `*' set to contain "<thing> <thing2> ... <thingk>"
|
+--> Stata executes -<command>.ado-
