hi all,
Nick Cox recently asks for not using the word "Bug" in the subject. While I
generally agree, I like to apply for an exemption in this case.
On Stata for Linux I am able to overwrite an existing data-file without
-replace-. Here are the details.
Here I am:
+-------------------------------------------------+
| . pwd |
| /home/kohler/pub/kkstata1e/kkstata |
+-------------------------------------------------+
Let me save a datafile ...
+-------------------------------------------------+
| . save pequiv01 |
| file ~/pub/kkstata1e/kkstata/pequiv01.dta saved |
+-------------------------------------------------+
and again:
+-------------------------------------------------+
| . save pequiv01 |
| file pequiv01.dta already exists |
| r(602); |
+-------------------------------------------------+
This does not work (as it should). However
+--------------------------------------------------+
| . save ~/pub/kkstata1e/kkstata/pequiv01 |
| file ~/pub/kkstata1e/kkstata/pequiv01.dta saved |
+--------------------------------------------------+
can be used to overwrite the datafile. At the same time
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| . save /home/kohler/pub/kkstata1e/kkstata/pequiv01 |
| file /home/kohler/pub/kkstata1e/kkstata/pequiv01.dta already exists |
| r(602); |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
works as expected. Another intersting point is, that
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| . save ~/pub/kkstata1e/kkstata/pequiv01, replace |
| (note: file ~/pub/kkstata1e/kkstata/pequiv01.dta not found) |
| file ~/pub/kkstata1e/kkstata/pequiv01.dta saved |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
states, that the file " ~/pub/kkstata1e/kkstata/pequiv01.dta" does not exist,
while it in fact does.
This was on Suse Linux 2.4.18-64GB-SMP with KDE 3.0.5 on a i686. Stata was
. query born
1 July 2004
and all ados have been up to date.
many regards
uli
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