st: RE: RE: Telling Stata what computer I am on

[Kieran McCaul <K.McCaul@curtin.edu.au>]

Brilliant!

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
[mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu]On Behalf Of David Harrison
Sent: Tuesday, 25 January 2005 8:26 PM
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: st: RE: Telling Stata what computer I am on


I would suggest identifying which computer you are on by giving a simple
command that will fail on one machine and capturing the output, e.g.

cap cd d:
if _rc {
    *LAPTOP
}
else {
    *DESKTOP
}

David
david@icnarc.org

-----Original Message-----
From: Kieran McCaul [mailto:K.McCaul@curtin.edu.au]
Sent: 25 January 2005 12:20
To: Statalist (E-mail)
Subject: st: Telling Stata what computer I am on


I work on two computers: one a desktop and the other a laptop.  The desktop
was setup with the hard-disk partition into C: and D: drives and my data and
programs are stored on the D: drive.

My laptop, however, has only a C: drive.  Therfore, if I write programs on
one they will not run on the other unless I change the C: to D: or visa
versa.

So I now put a global macro at the top of my programs to store the alternate
directory names something like this:

*DESKTOP
global thesisdata "D:\My Documents\Thesis\Analysis 2003\Setup"
global thesis "D:\My Documents\Thesis\Analysis 2003\Incidence - Histology
analysis"
*LAPTOP
*global thesisdata "D:\Thesis\Analysis 2003\Setup"
*global thesis "D:\Thesis\Analysis 2003\Incidence - Histology analysis"

Now to run a program on my laptop I would remove the * from the two LAPTOP
lines and add them to the two DESKTOP lines. 

I occurred to me that perhaps Stata could tell which computer it was running
on.  If that were the case, I could re-write my code above so that Stata
automatically assigned the correct macro.

I have found the c-class functions that store operating system information,
but there is nothing in these that is different between my two machines. 

Are there any undocumented c-class functions that could help, or does anyone
else have a different idea that might work.

Thanks, Kieran

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Kieran McCaul
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Dept of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
School of Public Health
Curtin University of Technology
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