st: too many files for dirlist

["Carlos Eduardo Hernandez Castillo" <cehc84@hotmail.com>]

Dear statalist community:

I have been using dirlist but it seems it has a maximum number of characters 
to retrieve in the return macros. For example, in a directory that contains 
the following files:

13areas.dta 7areas.dta Barranquilla.dta Bogota.dta Bucaramanga.dta Cali.dta 
Cartagena.dta Cucuta.dta Ibague.dta Manizales.dta Medellin.dta Monteria.dta 
NalECH.dta NalENH.dta OcupadosNacional.dta Pasto.dta Pereira.dta 
Proporciones.dta TotalesNacional.dta

"display r(fnames)" would retrieve:

13areas.dta 7areas.dta Barranquilla.dta Bogota.dta Bucaramanga.dta Cali.dta 
Cartagena.dta Cucuta.dta Ibague.dta Manizales.dta Medellin.dta Monteria.dta 
NalECH.dta NalENH.dta OcupadosNacional.dta Pasto.dta Pereira.dta 
Proporciones.dta TotalesNacional

I have been looking for an alternative to get the names of all the files but 
I have not been able to do so, do you have any idea? I am using Stata 9.2. 
Thanks in Advance.

Carlos Eduardo Hern�ndez Castillo
Colombian Ministry of Finance

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