>I was able to reproduce the behavior that Roger described and eventually
>track down the problem. This problem occurs when the command issued to
>-shell- must be enclosed in quotation marks. In some circumstances this
>is unavoidable since the command issued to -shell- is located in a folder
>such as "Program Files".
An ugly workaround for this is to write the path as c:\progra~1\ provided
that you don't have any folders under c:\ with names starting with
sequence "progra". Chances are there won't be any... but if you do,
they'll be named progra~2, progra~3 etc. in order of appearance, whatever
that might mean to Windows. This is the way the long file names used to be
stored under FAT32 file system with 8.3 symbols convention.
If you need to pick a name from registry or an environment variable to use
in your -shell- call, chances are it comes with spaces in it, so it might
be difficult to abbreviate the name properly, other than to parse it fully
with -tokenize, parse("\")- and then abbreviate each token to "??????~1".
It should not take too long to patch Stata kernel at Stata Corp side, but
in the meanwhile you can use this (not very reliable) trick.
--- Stas Kolenikov
-- Ph.D. student in Statistics at UNC-Chapel Hill
- http://www.komkon.org/~tacik/ -- [email protected]
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