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

[Jeph Herrin <junk@spandrel.net>]

Look up -creturn- and find:

"c(os) returns a string containing "Windows", "Unix", or "MacOSX", depending on
  the operating system that you are using."


hth,
Jeph



Marco Petracco Giudici wrote:
> 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
> --
> Marco Petracco Giudici
> PhD program in Economics and Organization
> University of Venice
>
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