st: Keeping Stata from unabbreviating variables

[Thomas Speidel <thomassp@cancerboard.ab.ca>]

I have noticed a potential problem with the unabbreviating command set 
to permanent.
If you instruct STATA not to abbreviate variables (i.e. .set varabbrev 
off, permanently), and then try a
. graph box var1, over(var2)

I get an error message of this type:

variable _bd_ not found
no variables defined

As soon as I go back to the default of abbreviating variables, 
everything goes back to normal.  I am not sure how many command are 
affected.  Perhaps, some ado's make use of the abbreviated version of a 
variable which cannot be found if we set to unabbreviate.

Thomas



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