David - You have found it! Here's what I got:
Thanks for your suggestion
AL Feiveson
To Alan Riley - Please disregard my last message - David has discovered the
problem.
Volume in drive D has no label.
Volume Serial Number is A4C1-D11C
Directory of D:\satfiles
10/28/2003 08:15a <DIR> .
10/28/2003 08:15a <DIR> ..
08/03/1999 08:40a 1,480 satish.ado
06/27/1997 07:29a 4,281 satish.dta
08/20/2001 03:21p 41,108 SATISH~1.DTA satish1_aug01.dta
08/05/1999 03:17p 464 satish2.do
08/21/2001 11:41a 41,108 SATISH~2.DTA satish2_aug01.dta
08/21/2001 02:24p 41,108 SATISH~3.DTA satish3_aug01.dta
08/24/2001 11:48a 41,108 SATISH~4.DTA satish4_aug01.dta
08/23/2001 03:28p 59,042 SA75C2~1.DTA satish5_aug01.dta
08/24/2001 09:23a 59,042 SAF5C2~1.DTA satish6_aug01.dta
08/24/2001 11:44a 59,042 SA76C2~1.DTA satish7_aug01.dta
08/24/2001 02:26p 59,042 SAF6C3~1.DTA satish8_aug01.dta
09/13/2000 07:54a 4,759 SA16C0~1.DTA satish_091300.dta
08/21/2001 02:24p 117,908 SA59C5~1.DTA satish_aug01.dta
12/17/2002 07:17a 2,747 SA3C4E~1.DTA
satish_coll_121602.dta
12/17/2002 07:20a 5,591 SAB9AD~1.DTA
satish_long_121602.dta
08/24/2001 02:47p 140 SATISH~1.DO satish_powsum.do
12/16/2002 03:26p 2,850 SA37CE~1.DTA
satish_wide_121602.dta
10/28/2003 08:15a 0 temp2.lis
18 File(s) 540,820 bytes
2 Dir(s) 7,926,353,920 bytes free
-----Original Message-----
From: David Kantor [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 3:33 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: Re: strange wildcard action
At 01:38 PM 10/27/2003 -0600, Alan Riley wrote:
>[...]
>
> 1) This problem can only be seen when some very particular path
> structure or combination of file names exists. If we were to
> exactly recreate Al's file and directory structure, we would
> be able to reproduce the problem. We could then try to find
> a workaround.
Just a thought: This may be a result of -dir- (whether it be in Stata or in
the command prompt) looking at both the WIN32 file names and the DOS short
alias names. Perhaps some of Al's files, such as satish2_aug01.dta, have
DOS aliases that begin "saf". This is unlikely, as I would expect the
alias to begin "sat", but it is not impossible. In any case, the presence
of these alias names can cause some surprises.
(To see alias names, type
dir .... /x
at the command prompt.)
-- David
David Kantor
Institute for Policy Studies
Johns Hopkins University
[email protected]
410-516-5404
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