st: Updated version of -zipsave-

[Henrik Stovring <hstovring@health.sdu.dk>]

Dear all,

Thanks to Kit Baum an updated version of the package -zipsave- is now 
available on the SSC repository. It is now possible to open a Stata 
datafile directly from a multifile zip-archive. Please let me know if 
you encounter problems, or have comments and suggestions for further 
development.

Best,

Henrik

PS (mostly to Stata's technical staff): I discovered what seems like a 
bug in the development process. If the zip-archive holds for example two 
dta-files and one does not specify which to open, then the unzip command 
I use (unzip -p ziparchive > tmpfile) will paste the two datafiles into 
one long file. When Stata 9.2 tries to open this single file with two 
datasets in it, it does not complain or stall - it crashes immediately! 
I have not yet tried with Stata 10, so it may not require fixing, but to 
me it seems an inadequate behaviour.

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