Re: st: Re: Stata 9 announcement

[Paul Millar <paul.millar@shaw.ca>]

Does this mean that, in general, strings can now be greater than 80 
characters in Stata 9?  This was a major pain in Stata 8.

- Paul Millar

At 09:16 AM 06/04/2005, you wrote:

> At 09:49 AM 4/6/2005 -0500, Alan Riley wrote:
>
> > Stata 8 already was set up to deal with this problem because of the
> > difference in maximum value label length between Intercooled Stata 8
> > (80) and Stata/SE 8 (244).  If Stata 8 encounters a label with any
> > mapping greater than its maximum length, it does not load that label:
> Ok, suppose a Stata 9 and Stata 8 user were both working on the same file 
> and modifying it.  Could the Stata 8 user zap the long value labels 
> created by the Stata 9 person by saving the file?  I know I'd sure be 
> annoyed if I spent all this time typing in 32,000 character value labels 
> and somebody else accidentally erased them :)
>
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