--- "Steven Stillman (LMPG)" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I frequently work on large datasets (150-200m) on a Pent IIII PC
> w/ Win2000 and 512m ram. I find that it takes a long time (3-5
> minutes) for these large datasets to initial open (stata is very
> fast once the datasets are loaded).
Do you use Stata 8 with a dataset from an earlier version of Stata?
Try to convert the dataset to Stata 8 format and see if it takes less
time to open.
Friedrich Huebler
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