Have you read the help on exit?
. help exit
May be missing something, but don't you just want to end te do file with
the line
. exit, clear STATA
If you want this to be optional you could begin your do file with
. args force_exit
and finish it with
. if ("`force_exit'" != "") exit, clear STATA
Then call your do file with the command
> stata do mydofile.do force_exit
or whatever is equivalent on Windows.
From your last point (and the way you're using do files) it sounds like
you'd enjoy unix/linux/etc. There is probably a simple way to check for
processes using the Windows OS, but I'm not a Windows person so maybe not.
James
Seb Buechte wrote:
Hello everybody!
I raised this issue once before and still, I would really appreciate
the possibility to "convince" Stata to let me quit the program without
confirmation that "I really want to do this, eventhough my data has
changed..."
I am using Stata with an external editor to write (I dare to say "to
program") my dofiles. I have managed to run the dofile from inside
this editor by calling the Stata environment. Each time I invoke Stata
to run my dofile, Stata will create a new instance. That is fine for
me, but what bothers me is that I cannot turn off that
confirmation-message-box which will appear each time I want to close
that Stata instance that holds changed data. I wonder wether there is
a hidden feature which could be activated to keep Stata of requiring
that confirmation. If no such thing should exist, why not adding it?
The default could still be the "paranoid"-mode to prevent users of
loosing their created data. But for all those who feel like they know
what they are doing it would be great to be able to turn such mode off
- at least it would be for me...
Another idea that just came across my mind is that it would be also
very nice to have a command line option for the wsestata-binary that
would check wether Stata is already running and if so to have the
dofile executed within the last Stata instance started. I know this
goes out to Statacorp's programmers. Still, why not asking for it?
Thank you for considering this :)
Sebastian
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