Re: st: Transfering multiple data to stata format.

[Roger Newson <roger.newson@kcl.ac.uk>]

At 19:21 01/09/2005, Amadou wrote:
> Hi,
> I have several data sets in spss format that I want to convert into stata
> format.
> I am using dbms copy v7 to do the job. But it won't accept multiple inputs.
> It is painfull to select one by one.
> Is there any efficient, faster way to code this?
I myself am a StatTransfer user, mostly because StatTransfer has a DOS 
command mode, which made it possible for me to write the -stcmd- package 
(downloadable from SSC) as a way for Stata programs to call StatTransfer. I 
presume that Amadou doesn't have StatTransfer.

DBMS Copy still doesn't have a DOS command mode (I think). However, I seem 
to recall that DBMS Copy has batch files, written in a command language of 
its own. Amadou might possibly write one of these batch files, or even 
write a Stata program to write one of these batch files.

I hope this helps.

Best wishes

Roger


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