st: error code with tempfile and save

["Wong, Mitch ,M.D." <mitchellwong@mednet.ucla.edu>]

Title: Message

I am using STATA 7 on Win2000 platform and I have been using hotdeck and outputst commands. With both programs, I have run into the same error code. Initially when I run these commands, they work fine.

However, after several uses (even without changing any of my code), I  get the following error:

**in outputst

- tempfile tmpdta

- qui save `tmpdta',replace

invalid 'and'

r(198);

 

 

 

**in hotdeck

- tempfile olddata

- qui save `olddata'

invalid 'and'

r(198);

 

 

Any thoughts on what the problem is and how to fix this?

 

Mitchell Wong

UCLA