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Re: st: profile.do
i'll note that -set trace on- act the same way, which means you can turn
on tracing at a mid-point in your program (just before the point you are
debugging), and Stata will *not* continue to display trace output after
the program ends.
This was a change (around Stata 8??).
--NW
n j cox wrote:
I would put it differently. You can include
set more off
in a do-file but it doesn't have a persistent effect. It only operates
until the end of the do file. This is generic to do files, and beyond.
Experiments with something like
* --------------------------- setmoreoff.do
set more off
* ---------------------------
clear
set obs 1000
do setmoreoff
gen id = _n
l
will show that the do-file does nothing that persists beyond its own
termination. Adding -, permanently- makes no difference to that as far
as I can tell. At this moment I don't have access to a manual, so I
can't see if the manual says more than the help on this detail.
I surmise that the rationale for this behaviour is that it is more
likely to be what you really want than the opposite. -set more off- is
usually for here and now, and temporarily. That means, _within_ a
program, do file (including code currently in do file editor) or
interactive session, but not beyond.
Nick
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David Jacobs <[email protected]>
Stata deliberately does not let users alter the set more off command
in the profile.do file although I can't remember why.
Dave
>I'm using Stata 9 and I made a profile.do file so that when Stata opens
>it sets the mem to 500m and sets more off. I see that the little do
>file runs every time Stata opens, but it does not set more off. Does
>anybody have any idea why? Here is what is in the profile.do file.
>
>set more off
>set memory 500m
>
>and here is how I know it is actually running. This is the message I
>get now whenever I start Stata:
>Notes:
> 1. (/m# option or -set memory-) 10.00 MB allocated to data
> 2. (/v# option or -set maxvar-) 5000 maximum variables
>
>
>running C:\Program Files\Stata9\profile.do ...
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