st: [Stata8] estimates hold?

[Heather Gold <heg2001@med.cornell.edu>]

Dear Listers-
I have a program that takes about 1/2 hour to run. If I want to fiddle with 
some post-estimation commands and predictions, is there a way to hold the 
estimates even if I have to shut down my computer at night?  I don't want 
to have to re-run the program just because I have to shut down or restart 
the computer.

I thought -estimates hold- might be an option but 1) I didn't know if/how 
restore worked after the Stata session ends, and 2) I have a simultaneous 
equations model with more than 20 variables (I only need some of the 
coefficients in the model for my predictions, however.).

Any thoughts appreciated.

Thanks,
Heather 

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