Re: st: New SSC package: -dfl-

[Daniel Lawson <dlawson1@nd.edu>]

Is there any convention that the file _genx.ado ought to define the 
program _genx?

On Feb 9, 2005, at 4:29 PM, Nick Cox wrote:


> Whoa! Who knows what programs unknown to
> them use -_genx- and will thereby be clobbered?
>
> Better to clone -_genx- and make
> the resulting -genx- program a subroutine
> of -dfl-, in the same file.
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
> jean ries
>
> > Daniel Lawson wrote :
> > > When I tried the command on a data set I have as follows:
> > > . dfl female age1 age2 age3 age4 black edu1 edu2 edu3 edu4
> > edu5 extract
> > > manufacture if manager==0, outcome(lnw)
> > >
> > > I got the error message
> > > unrecognized command:  _genx not defined by _genx.ado
> > I had the same problem. The following recipe should do the
> > job. Find the
> > file named "_genx.ado" and open it in a text-editor. Change the line
> >
> > program define genx
> >
> > into
> >
> > program define _genx
> >
> > and save the file. If Stata is currently running, type
> > -discard- after you
> > have done the changes.
> >
> > If you don't know where to find the file "_genx.ado", type
> > -adopath- and
> > look for the path that is labelled (PLUS). At that place you
> > will find a
> > directory called "_"  in which you will find the file.
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