st: Announcing floattolong; also, update to carryforward

[David Kantor <dkantor@jhu.edu>]

Hi everyone.

I want to announce that another simple-but-possibly-useful program has been 
placed in the SSC Archives.  This is -floattolong-, which recasts float 
variables to long; it is intended as a companion to -collapse-. Whereas 
-collapse- is concerned with shrinking storage space, this converts to a 
more appropriate data type, where possible. It's very simple, but very 
convenient if you need to do that sort of operation frequently.

Also, if any of you picked up -carryforward-, which I announced on August 
4, there is now a new version with slight improvements.

Thanks to Kit Baum for placing these in the SSC Archives.
Thanks for you consideration.
-- David

David Kantor
Institute for Policy Studies
Johns Hopkins University
dkantor@jhu.edu
410-516-5404

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