RE: st: Question RE: having Stata 9 and 10 both installed, and opening files by default with Stata 9 (not 10)

["Spiess, Sven Oliver" <mail@svenoliverspiess.net>]

> You should be also be able to right click and select 'Open With' and
> select a program to open the file. Usually the previous procedure of
> associating a program with the extension by selecting properties will
> work fine all the time. But its permanency and ability to open other
> files of the same extension is iffy.... after all it is windows.. Hope
> it helps.

If I remember correctly that does not work in this situation because you cannot
suffix the "use" or "doedit" commands this way. So Stata would open but
immediately issue an error message because it doesn't know, for instance, the
"command" C:\Documents.
In addition I'm not sure it would work if you have two different versions of the
same application. So you could switch from, say, Stata to Stat/Transfer as the
associated application but not from wsestata.exe (10.0) to wsestata.exe (9.2)
even if they are in different locations. I might be wrong, though, but I think I
had the exact same problems with Stata 8 and 9.
-SOS


> On Nov 28, 2007, at 1:05 PM, F V wrote:
> 
> > I have Stata 9 and 10 installed (Windows XP).
> >
> > I prefer to work with Stata 9 for the time being, as
> > that is what my coauthors use.
> >
> > My question is - how can I force my machine to use
> > Stata 9 (not 10) by default when I click into a data
> > file and, furthermore, when I right click into a
> > do-file so as to edit it?
> >
> > Thanks for the tip.
> >
> > F
> >
> >
> >
> >
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