I don't see any problem.
Just rename _merge (variable that is generated every time you use the
command -merge-) or drop it.
Rafa
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 5:36 PM
Subject: st: FW: What is the menaing of "_merge already defined"
> Uri Goldbourt, PhD wrote to me privately,
> and I take the liberty of forwarding to the list:
>
> Assisted by the "help merge" documentation, I sorted one dataset ,
> then the
> other by the same named variable indicating subject number.
> Then I applied the command "merge ---- (the variable indicating
> subject
> number) using ---- (the file first use and sorted)"
>
> I obtained "_merge already defined".
>
> Why and what do I need to correct, in order to obtain successful match
> merge?
>
>
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