Re: st: consistency of sort?

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@nd.edu>]

At 08:39 AM 12/20/2004 -0800, Gabriel Demombynes wrote:
> use temp, clear
> sort cluster
> li
>
> This produces different results each time. Although
> the dataset is sorted by cluster each time, the order
> within cluster is different.
>
> Is this a general phenomenon, or is this somehow
> particular to my data? This is an older dataset, with
> variables originally created in version 6.
Add the -stable- option to sort.  See -help sort-


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