Re: st: Stata 9 announcement

[Nick Winter <nw53@cornell.edu>]

I have no idea, but I'll bet that the format is the same for the following 
reasons:

(1) Stat/Transfer just released a new update of its own; I imagine they 
would have received signals (if not outright information) from Statacorp 
that there was a new format coming down the line and waited a month or so 
for their own update.

(2) At first glance there don't appear to be new data features that require 
new formats (such as extended missings; longer strings

(3) Label language, which might require a new dataset format, already 
exists in 8.2, and is implemented with characteristics.

Of course, I could be wrong; this is just a guess.

--Nick



At 07:56 AM 4/6/2005 -0500, you wrote:

> At 01:29 AM 4/4/2005 -0500, William Gould, Stata wrote:
> > We have a tradition of telling Statalist members about new releases of
> > Stata before anyone else, so here it is:
> >
> > I am pleased to be the one to announce the release of Stata 9.
> Something I don't believe has been asked yet:  Are the file formats of 
> Stata 8 and Stata 9 identical?  I hope so.  If not, somebody once proposed 
> that the last update of an older version should include the ability to 
> convert files from the new version.  I think that is a very good idea.
>
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