I am doing it within STATA. However, STATA is on a
Terminal Server (I use STATA at work).
--- Nick Winter <[email protected]> wrote:
> I believe that the operating system may be listing
> the files, but then
> the OS window closes as soon as that finishes,
> making it impossible for
> you to actually see the results. (Which raises the
> question, why do you
> want to do this within the OS, rather than from
> within Stata?)
>
> Nick Winter
>
>
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Karina Fortuny [mailto:[email protected]]
>
> > Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 12:36 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: RE: st: RE: Arrays - unidentified number
> of elements
> >
> >
> > 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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