Re: st: Re: aorder: system limit exceeded

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 03:31 PM 7/1/2005 +1000, James Muller wrote:
> It's something to do with the updated release of aorder.
>
> When I run release 2.2.2 found in the 'base' adopath directory of Stata 8 
> it works fine; the release in the 'update' adopath directory dispays the 
> bug. Since 2.2.2 is not available in Stata9 I have attached the old 
> version to this email; it works fine in Stata9.
>
> A crude way of fixing this, -I believe-, is to copy the old release to 
> update path and change the version numbering so it won't get overwritten. 
> I'm not sure of the mechanics of the update process, but if you trick 
> whatever mechanism is used into thinking the old release is the current, 
> then when the new (corrected) release, "version 2.2.4", is provided then 
> your aorder will automatically update.
Good catch.  But, instead of trying all these tricks, I would suggest just 
copying the old version and name it aorder2, and changing the program line 
accordingly.  In general I don't think it is a good idea to try to change 
the official Stata programs; instead make copies with new names and place 
them in c:\ado\personal or something like that.

As for why the change - if you dig through the -help whatsnew- listing, you 
see that on 22 Aug 2003 "aorder gave a system-limit error if some of the 
variable names had the letter "d" or "e" after an initial stub and number; 
this is fixed." Without wading through the code, I wonder if they just 
shifted the problem to "c" and "d" instead!


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