Re: st: temporary objects - conflicts of memory?

[Thomas Trikalinos (.Mac) <ttrikalin@mac.com>]

I have no idea if this helps, but I've seen this problem with my files 
(WindowsXP) months ago.
When I specified "clear" before "use", the procedure worked OK:
. clear
. use "`year'old.dta"

instead of
. use "`year'old.dta" , clear

I have no idea if this did the trick, or if the procedure would work 
either way. It  worked(?) and I did not bother.
Perhaps those who really speak STATA know better

Tom

On Jun 9, 2004, at 11:58, Giovanni Vecchi wrote:


> Dear statalisters,
>
> I am facing a problem which is becoming recurrent, if not systematic, 
> in
> my stata sessions.
>
> The setting is as follows. I have a set of files named 1839old.dta,
> 1840old.dta, ... up to 1891old.dta. I want to loop through these files,
> carry out a few changes, and save each file with a different name. The
> outline of my code is as follows:
>
> foreach year of numlist 1839(1)1891 {
> 	
> 	use `year'old, clear
> 	
> 	< do some changes >
>
> 	save `year'new, replace
> }
>
>
> When the code above is run I get the following error:
>
> file C:\DOCUME~1\Vecchi\LOCALS~1\Temp\ST_01000079.tmp could not be
> opened
>
> What is puzzling/disturbing is that the error above occurs at different
> stages of the procedure: on re-running the procedure again and again 
> the
> error sometimes pop up after year 1855, other times after year 1857 
> etc.
>
> My guess is that the problem is caused by a conflict with the operating
> system (is it fighting Stata on memory allocation issues?).
>
> I am currently running stata under windows XP professional, but I 
> obtain
> the same results under other OS.
>
> The fact that error messages of the type above have been recurrent in 
> my
> past experience with stata, and the fact that other users I know of 
> have
> shared the same problems suggest that the issue might be worth being
> addressed once and for all by statacorp staff.
>
> Sincerely,
> Giovanni Vecchi
>
>
>
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