i have cut and pasted this from stata help. ordinarily, i would type all
these continously so i end up with three continous lines on the command
windows before pressing return to excute the command. i think there's
something to be said about doing it neatly in that it makes what's to be
graphed and spotting error easier. i have looked at the [G] and [U] but
could find advice about this syntax (i used the word syntax for want of a
better description). if this lay-out was just to make it nicer for the
manual or on-line help then i would appreciate if someone could confirm the
fact. if otoh, there's actually a way to make it nice and structured, would
appreciate it too if someone could advice me how or where to look for the
instructions.
2. having used stata7 before, i got used to entering commands rather than
using the pull-down dialog boxes. but in the spirit of curiousity i decided
to explore the dialogs. well, the first thing i encountered in clicking on
the graphics -> histogram was the error msg: insufficient memory to load
dialog. so i checked -help smalldlg-, close all other running apps except
for stata8 and tried again. same error msg. so then i -set smalldlg on- then
some kind of dialog interface appears and the histogram function worked. not
knowing what the full version of the dialog box is, i can't compare how
'watered down' is the small dialog box. is this a bug or am i not doing
something right?
