James,
I really appreciate your efforts and I thank you for your extensive
answers to my thoughts!
Sebastian
On 8/27/05, James Muller <[email protected]> wrote:
> An example daemon mode for Stata in the form of an ado file:
>
> To use this starting Stata type
> > stata daemon_mode /path/to/file.do
> or whatever works for your OS.
>
> Stata will simply loop until the file /path/to/file.do exists, then will
> delete the file. I might make this a proper package, though it's dead
> simple. Anyone want any more functionality?
>
> Anyway, here's the ado file:
>
>
> --------------------daemon_mode.ado----------------------------
> program define daemon_mode
> args path
>
> while (1) {
> sleep 1000
>
> capture file open FH using "`path'", read
> if (_rc == 0) {
> file close FH
> do "`path'"
> erase "`path'"
> }
> }
>
> end
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
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