st: Querying Stata on what kind of machine it is running

[Marco Petracco Giudici <mpguk@yahoo.co.uk>]

Hello everybody,

I have been searching the manual and the net for a while, but could not 
find an answer to what should be an "easy" question. I have a Mac laptop 
and a Windows desktop, both of them with stata installed. I am writing 
.do files and would like to make them send their output to a certain 
directory/folder using the "cd" "use" and "save" commands.
However the syntax of the "cd" and other commands is different in Stata 
for Mac and Stata for Windows (the way of specifying the path is 
different under the two OSs)
The question then is: is there a way of querying on what machine stata 
is running in order to execute the command with the appropriate syntax?
In other words, I would like to write a bit of code to do something like

" Discover on which machine stata is running "
" if running on a Mac execute cd command with mac syntax "
" else if running on a winxp machine execute cd command with winxp syntax "

grateful for any help,

best regards,

Marco
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Marco Petracco Giudici
PhD program in Economics and Organization
University of Venice

		
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