Re: st: Making saveold a permanent option

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@nd.edu>]

At 03:09 PM 3/2/2004 -0600, you wrote:
> My pc at home has Stata 7,  and at the office I use Stata 8.  I often forget
> to specify "saveold" when moving data from the office to home.  Is there any
> way to tell Stata 8 to always save data sets as Stata 7 (make saveold the
> default)?  I know this may seem trivial, but I think it would be a useful
> feature.  If this is not possible, would there be disadvantages to adding 
> such
> an option?
> Finally, if I have data in Stata 8 format that I need to open in Stata 7, is
> there a way to do so (in an emergency:-))?
> Thanks,
You might want to buy Stat/Transfer.  Obviously that is a slightly 
expensive solution, but if you have the need to transfer to and from other 
formats (e.g. SPSS) it is well worth the money.  Perhaps you can even bribe 
some systems person there to make it available on your network.  You might 
also check to see if your network already has dbms copy -- I don't know if 
it has been updated for Stata v. 8 yet or not.

It would be nice if Stata made a freebie utility available for this 
purpose, or released an update to v. 7 that let it convert v. 8 files.


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