Note that you can have Stata -describe- the contents of a file residing on
the hard disk without actually opening it. See the second syntax in -h
describe-
HTH
Martin
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jos� Luis Ch�vez
Calva
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 10:18 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: Modify large data base without opening it
I'm working with a very large data base (1000m, 2000 vars) and my PC
is taking too long to open it. I would like to know if there is a way
or a specific command to drop some variables without actually opening
the data base.
Thanks in advance,
Jos� Luis Ch�vez Calva
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