What I did was to erase the original c and then install Nick's.
The command dis allows for a simple calculator when needed and if I need
something with
memory, I use a hand calculator.
Many thanks for all the comments.
Don Spady
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 02:45
Subject: st: RE: Re: RE: Utility for Changing Directories
> Don Spady tried to install Nick Winter's -c-:
> >
> > I tried to install this and got the message that c.ado and
> > c.hlp already
> > existed and were different.
> > Trying them out brings up a calculator command. This is in
> > stbplus. I didn't write it.
> > Perhaps I downloaded it at some time in the past.
> > The comment I have is: "is there some convention for not
> > using the same names for programs"
>
> Yes, there is. Naturally, you can use whatever names you like for
> your own programs so long as they don't conflict with Stata's official
> commands or whatever user-written commands you use. But I imagine that
> Don's question is really about programs put in the public domain.
>
> First, there is a strong rule that SSC can only contain one program of
> a given
> name. So here we have one more reason for supporting SSC, although
> there
> could be all sorts of reasons why user-programmers prefer to put up
> their
> own stuff elsewhere, e.g. on their own websites.
>
> Second, Stata Corp introduced -cmdname- registration. (Type -findit
> cmdname-.)
> In many ways this was an excellent idea, although my impression is
> that it has
> not worked. One problem is that known in various circles as the
> tragedy of
> the commons, that only if everybody takes care to do this will it work
> well. Also, and I'll speak for myself only, although the same may be
> true
> for others, Stata Corp's rule -- or at least request -- that
> user-programmers
> not use proper English words for program names is
> sometimes irksome. The natural name for a program is, very often,
> a word straight out of the dictionary, and Stata Corp's claim to the
> whole
> of the English language seems a trifle large, especially when they are
> American.
> Thus I would not be allowed to register -spell- or -split-, which
> are currently on SSC. (I have often followed the rules; -contract-
> was born as -collfreq-; -separate- was born as -sepvars-.) There is
> a clear downside to this. Suppose I name a program with some English
> word, say -scan-. Then later Stata Corp introduces -scan- as an
> official
> command. Depending on details, it will be essential or desirable
> for me to change the name of my -scan- (unless, of course,
> Stata's -scan-
> does what my -scan- does, but better, all too likely), and the same
> applies to any users of -scan-. This seems only fair.
>
> Also, and this is directly pertinent here, -cmdname- will not allow
> names with "less than 4 characters" to be registered.
>
> I have never heard of c.ado. -findit c- just finds too many
> false positives to cast light on this.
>
> Don has various alternatives, including
>
> 1. erasing these files
>
> 2. copying them to files with
> different names
>
> 3. writing a wrapper for Nick
> Winter's command, along these lines
>
> ========================== begin myc.ado
> program def myc
> C `0'
> end
>
> program def C
> <insert Nick's program file>
> end
> ========================= end myc.ado
>
> ========================= begin myc.hlp
> <insert Nick's help file,
> changing references to -c-
> to -myc->
> ======================== end myc.hlp
>
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
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