Its just a hunch.....try something like:
drop _all;
then start a fresh.
-Jayesh Kumar
IGIDR
:
: 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);
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