Re: st: Crash Command

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

At 06:43 PM 4/23/2004 -0400, you wrote:
> Does anyone know what this command does.  I'm looking over a program and
> this command comes up crash; i have looked everywhere and cannot find this
> command.  Thank you.
Could it be that Crash is (or was) hiding inside profile.do or some other 
do or ado file?  I added these lines to my profile.do:

program define hello
   display "Hello, Rich"
end
program define mylist
   list, sep(8)
end

and both the -hello- and -mylist- commands then work from within 
Stata.  However, neither shows up when I use the -which- command.  So, 
maybe you should look at profile.do and/or do a search of all your do and 
ado files to see if -crash- is defined within them.

Incidentally, -hello- and -mylist- continue to work even after I type 
-clear- or -discard-.  I thought they would go away.  So, it seems like any 
little shorthand commands you want could be defined in profile.do.

I've seen a lot of ado files that define programs within their programs -- 
do these routines continue to hang around after the ado file has finished, 
or what?  Could they be called separately, e.g. if -myado.do- defined a 2nd 
program, -myotherado-, could I then make a direct reference to -myotherado- 
from within Stata?


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