st: New version of -dolog- and -dologx- on SSC

[Roger Newson <roger.newson@kcl.ac.uk>]

Hello All

Thanks to Kit Baum, new versions of the -dolog- and -dologx- packages are 
now available for download from SSC. In Stata, use the -ssc- command to do 
this.

-dolog- and -dologx- are described as below on my website. The new version 
of -dolog- is in Stata Version 8. (Stata 7 and 6 users can still download 
the older versions of -dolog- from my website.) The new version of -dologx- 
now gives the creation date for -dolog8.ado- if the user types

which dolog8

I would like to thank Danielle Ferry for reminding me that -dolog- had not 
been updated to Stata 8 on SSC, and for informing me that this was causing 
some mysterious failures in the Stata 8 version of -svyset- when she 
included that command in the do-file.

Best wishes

Roger


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package dolog from http://www.kcl-phs.org.uk/rogernewson/stata8
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TITLE
      dolog: Execute commands from a file, creating a log file

DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
      dolog (like do) causes Stata to execute the commands stored in filename
      just as if they were entered from the keyboard, and echos the 
commands as it
      executes them, creating a log file filename.log.  If filename is 
specified
      without an extension, filename.do is assumed. If filename is 
specified with
      an extension, then the log file will have .log as an additional 
extension
      (so dolog will not overwrite the original do-file). Arguments are 
allowed
      (as with do), but the nostop option is not available.

      Author: Roger Newson
      Distribution-Date: 05january2005
      Stata-Version: 8

INSTALLATION FILES                                  (click here to install)
      dolog.ado
      dolog.hlp
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package dologx from http://www.kcl-phs.org.uk/rogernewson/stata8
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TITLE
      dologx: Multiple versions of dolog for executing certification scripts

DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
      dologx (like dolog) causes Stata to execute the commands stored in a 
do-file
      named filename.do as if they were entered from the keyboard, and 
echos the
      commands as it executes them, creating a log file filename.log. The 
dologx
      package contains multiple versions of dolog, written in multiple Stata
      versions, intended for use when running certification scripts. 
Usually, a
      do-file should contain a version statement at or near the top, so it 
will
      still run in the Stata version in which it was written, even if the 
user runs
      it under a later version of Stata. Certification scripts are an 
exception to
      this rule, because they are run under multiple Stata versions, to 
certify
      that the package being tested works under all of these versions. A
      certification script therefore should not contain a version 
statement at the
      top. The version of Stata under which it run will therefore be the 
version in
      force in the program that calls it, even if that program is dolog. The
      standard version of dolog should therefore not be used to run a 
certification
      script, and the user should use the dologx package instead, using 
dolog6 to
      run it under Stata 6, dolog7 to run it under Stata 7, and so on.

      Author: Roger Newson
      Distribution-Date: 05January2003
      Stata-Version: 8

INSTALLATION FILES                                  (click here to install)
      dolog6.ado
      dolog7.ado
      dolog8.ado
      dologx.hlp
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--
Roger Newson
Lecturer in Medical Statistics
Department of Public Health Sciences
King's College London
5th Floor, Capital House
42 Weston Street
London SE1 3QD
United Kingdom

Tel: 020 7848 6648 International +44 20 7848 6648
Fax: 020 7848 6620 International +44 20 7848 6620
  or 020 7848 6605 International +44 20 7848 6605
Email: roger.newson@kcl.ac.uk
Website: http://phs.kcl.ac.uk/rogernewson/

Opinions expressed are those of the author, not the institution.

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