Re: st: path to folder prob

[Jeph Herrin <junk@spandrel.net>]

My macro-fu is not the best, so there's probably a more
succinct solution, but this works for me:

local path "C:/Documents and Settings/`c(username)'/Desktop"
cd "`path'"

hth,
Jeph

Martin Weiss wrote:
> Dear Statalisters,
>
> I am wondering whether there is a way to have Stata -cd- to a certain
> directory on two different computers which only differ in the name of the
> user profile? In other words, is there a way to have Stata -cd- to the
> user`s "my files" on Windows Vista Business reliably? Among the values
> thrown up by -cret li- I judge only "c(username)" to be promising. However,
> when I instruct Stata to 
> ****************
> cd C:\Users\"`c(username)'"\Documents
> ****************
>
> or 
> ****************
> cd C:\Users\`c(username)'\Documents
> ****************
>
> Stata complains about "invalid syntax r(198)". Is there a way to achieve
> this?
>
>
>
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