Ricardo,
Providing you have purchased a copy of Stat-Transfer this is
perfectly feasable.
Assuming your using windows, you need to ensure that the dos-
version of stat-transfer (which is called st.exe) is in a directory that
is included in your PATH environemnt (if you're not sure how to do
this then look at http://www3.sympatico.ca/rhwatson/dos7/ for
enlightenment)
You can then use the -!- command to invoke a call to the system
to use stat-transfer (see -man shell-).
Thus within your do-file you should have something like (assuming
the database is in the same working directory as Stata is in, I
usually start my do-files with a -cd- command)
!st mydata.mdb mydata.dta
use mydata.dta
Hope this helps
Neil
Neil Shephard
Genetics Statistician
ARC Epidemiology Unit, University of Manchester
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