--- Gauri Khanna <[email protected]> wrote:
> I sent a stata dataset created in version 9.2 to a stata 8 user who
> ran into the 80 characters limit problem for string variables. As
> you know, Stata 8 only supports 80 characters on string variables
> whereas the dataset I created in version 9.2 has a couple of string
> variables that are in excess of 80.
>
> 1. So I tried to compress these variables. But when I look at them
> again using the -describe- command I find no difference in their
> length? Does that mean that these variables are not compressed or
> cannot be compressed?
