Re: st: Stata 10 announcement

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 01:36 AM 6/4/2007, William Gould, StataCorp LP wrote:
>     2.  Because of the new time variables, Stata's .dta dataset format
>         has changed.  This happens periodically and, because Stata
>         always reads old-format datasets, most users don't care or even
>         notice.  It does mean, however, that if you use Stat/Transfer,
>         you will want to upgrade to Stat/Transfer 9 [sic].  Yes, it's
>         confusing:  Stat/Transfer 9 goes with Stata 10.
Congratulations on the new release.  Somebody suggested once that it 
would be nice if the last version of an old Stata included the 
ability to read files from the new version.  I think that would be a 
very nice feature, as it takes a while to get everyone converted to 
the latest version.


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