You could try -compress-.
At some point, it really does pay to skim
through the manuals, in this case [D],
to see what you are missing.
Nick
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Marilyn Ibarra
> Would it have anything to do with this: when I describe the
> variable in my 2003 dataset I get:
>
> us_id str6 %12s
>
> in the 2004 I get:
>
> us_id str12 %12s
>
>
> Is this what is causing the problem, if so how do I get them
> to be both str12?
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