What kind of work-around are you expecting?
Stata's problem, I think, is that it expects at most one
note for each combination of name and number, e.g. "mpg"
and "1".
In addition, as the variables in the datasets typically
have the same names -- little point in -append-ing
otherwise -- it is difficult to think of a work-around
other than having unique variable names in each dataset,
to each of which you attach -notes-. I haven't tested that.
A clumsier alternative is to store text in a string
variable in each dataset.
Devra Golbe
> I would like to append two data files each having notes. As
> the output
> below indicates, notes from the "using" file are evidently
> not retained
> when the master file already contains notes on the same
> variable. The same
> is true for a note attached to the file as a whole: while it
> is possible
> to have multiple notes, if the master file contains such
> notes, none are
> retained from the using file.
>
> Does anyone know of a work-around?
>
> Thanks,
> Devra
>
