Part of the key here is the ordering provided by -which-,
followed by the information provided by -adopath-. The
trick is to -cd- so that Stata first sees the program you want.
Often the way to do that is to change to the program's
own directory.
However, it is not a good idea to work in Stata's own
space, even if you know exactly what you are doing.
In addition, you may need to discard any pertinent program
in memory.
If a command is built-in, the only way to do it is with
an older executable.
I thought from your examples that you had installed a
user-written program in official Stata's space, but
-ivtobit- is an official command.
When I want to do this, it is for different versions of my
own programs. It is not for different versions of an
official command.
Nick
[email protected]
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> Is there any way to make Stata use one command instead of
> another with the same name (i.e. ways different from
> re-naming, removing, etc...)?
>
> E.g. make Stata using the original (old) version of -xtgee- ...
>
> . which xtgee, all
>
> C:\Programmi\Stata9\ado\updates\x\xtgee.ado
> *! version 4.4.11 23oct2006
>
> C:\Programmi\Stata9\ado\base\x\xtgee.ado
> *! version 4.4.6 27jun2005
>
> ... or the user-written command
>
> . which ivtobit, all
>
> C:\Programmi\Stata9\ado\updates\i\ivtobit.ado
> *! version 1.1.9 30nov2006
>
> C:\Programmi\Stata9\ado\base\i\ivtobit.ado
> *! version 1.1.5 03apr2005
>
> c:\ado\plus\i\ivtobit.ado
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