Thanks for the prompt and helpful update. Just one thing is confusing
me. How is Stat/Transfer supposed to know the difference between the
switch /v or \v<versionnumber> (implying a version) and the switch /v
(which implies verbose output, according to stwin9.pdf and the
Stat/Transfer online help "Command Processor Options for Messages")?
Thanks in advance
Roger
Roger Newson
Lecturer in Medical Statistics
Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health Group
National Heart and Lung Institute
Imperial College London
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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steven
Dubnoff
Sent: 21 June 2007 02:17
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: New Stat/Transfer switch to control output Stata version
Our decision to make Stata version 10 the default has caused lots of
problems, particularly for command line users. To mitigate these, we
have added a new switch to the copy command 'v'. By itself, this
switch cause a write to a prior version of a program. If
the 'v' switch is followed by a number it will select a specific
Stata version. In short, this switch behaves like the "set
write-old-ver" command. For example, both of the following will
write Stata 9 files.
copy my.xls out.dta /v9
or from a unix OS prompt:
st my.sav out.dta -v
Stcmd.ado users can insert the switch permanently in their ado file.
This is now available through the auto-update mechanism for Windows
and OS-X, or, for all Unix platforms, by download from our website.
Best,
Steve
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