I realize this :). I was saying that
dir \mydirectory\*.dta
shows the files in mydirectory
but
oscmd dir \mydirectorypath\*.dta
does not - and the weird thing is that a screen
flashes up for a second and that's it.
--- Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> Karina Fortuny
> >
> > oscmd dir /b *.dta -
> >
> > When I run the program - oscmd, no results appear
> in
> > the Results window. (If I type just dir /b *.dta,
> the
> > files are listed in the results window). A window
> > flashes for a second and disappears. The OS is
> > Windows.
>
> This example will only produce detectable
> output if there is at least one .dta file
> in the current directory.
>
> . dir *.dta
>
> is Stata's way of showing that.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
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