Thanks, Martin. I was totally unaware of -zipfile-. How does one find
out about these things, if they are not even listed in -help
undocumented-?? I guess I should be asking Sergiy...
Also, given that * works interactively (which makes it look like a
command, which confused me in the first place), I do find it confusing
that // doesn't.
Eva
2008/9/26 Martin Weiss <[email protected]>:
> Shameless advert: http://www.stata-journal.com/article.html?article=dm0040
>
> But your message indicates you already knew that.
>
> Apart from that, I think of -zipfile- and -unzipfile-. They both do good
> services in one of my ados, but have to the best of my knowledge never been
> acknowledged... I think there was a post by Sergiy back in the day that
> alerted me to their presence :-)
>
> HTH
> Martin
> _______________________
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eva Poen" <[email protected]>
> To: "Statalist" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 10:36 PM
> Subject: st: undocumented command *
>
>
>> Today I stumbled upon this neat little command -*-, whose only purpose
>> in life seems to be to do nothing at all, and swallow everything
>> behind it:
>>
>> * blah blubb this does not make any sense but Stata doesn't complain,
>> surprisingly
>>
>> (Try typing this in Stata.) I found it while implementing some
>> entertaining dots for my exact unconditional test program, in the
>> style of -simulate- etc. I examined simulate.ado, and there it was.
>> -which *- shows that it officially doesn't exist.
>>
>> I was wondering if there are more of these "hidden gems", which might
>> be useful in programming, but are not only undocumented but also
>> invisible for -which-. Any suggestions?
>>
>> Eva
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