st: Re: Making a unique log file

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

Cmdlog using "D:\statalogs\comlog${S_DATE}"


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donald Spady" <dspady@ualberta.ca>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 5:21 PM
Subject: st: Making a unique log file



> I want to make a command log file using cmdlog, but I want it to be unique
> every time I begin Stata.  Right now my command is
>
> cmdlog using "D:\statalogs\comlog",append
>
> I want it to read something like
> Cmdlog using "D:\statalogs\comlog"+"$S_DATE"
>
> or some other unique identifier but every time I try it, the program 
> aborts
> when it gets to the '+' sign.  Can someone please tell me how to get this 
> to
> work.
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
> Donald W Spady MD, MSc
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