Re: st: Newbie type question

["Austin Nichols" <austinnichols@gmail.com>]

Morrison Hodges --
Why not just

use smith.rtdata
do rtanalalysis

?  I have a feeling some other concern is operative here.
Perhaps a short program would be of interest.

prog def rdo
use `2'.rtdata
do `1'
end
rdo rtanalalysis smith

On 3/7/07, Morrison Hodges <hodge002@umn.edu> wrote:
> This is a beginner's question, I'm sure, but I have not been able to do what
> I want to do.
> I have a lot of files generated by a separate custom program, all in the
> form of *.rtdata. The * denotes the mnemonic for the patient's name. I want
> to do some data studies on each file, and have started a .do file to do
> that. The .do file name is rtanalysis, and a sample patient file is
> smith.rtdata. I would like to type:
>
> "do rtanalalysis smith"
>
> and have the do file open the file "smith.rtdata" and do the analysis I have
> written. Can anyone help? Thanks
>
> Morry Hodges
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