Re: st: working directory

[Roger Newson <roger.newson@kcl.ac.uk>]

At 11:29 05/05/03 +0200, Hans J. Baumgartner wrote:
> Dear listers
>
> My institute switched to a network perpetual licence.
> Thus, the default working directory differs from my prefered working 
> directory and has to be changed manually each time when I start Stata 8. I 
> am not able to save a profile.do in the working directory since (i) I have 
> no write permission on that directory and (ii) my preferred profile might 
> differ from my colleagues preferred profile.
Hans doesn't specify which operating environment is being used, so I will 
assume it is some form of Windows. Usually, when an instutute has a network 
perpetual license, it is possible for each user to have his/her own 
profile.do in his/her own PERSONAL directory on his/her own machine. (The 
PERSONAL directory usually has a path name like c:\ado\personal, but type 
-adopath- in Stata to be sure.) If that is not possible at Hans's 
institute, then Hans should have a word with the network administrator in 
charge.

Another possible solution (which I use) is to have an advanced text editor 
like TextPad or PFE, and to set that editor as the default application on 
my system for opening Stata .do files, and to have an item on the Execute 
menu (in PFE) or the Tools menu (in TextPad) to call Stata from within the 
editor, setting the default directory to be the directory of the current 
file. More about text editors for use with Stata can be found at
http://repec.org/docs/textEditors.html
which describes a selection of possible editors.

I hope this helps

Roger


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