Re: st: re: how to link the help file for a command to itsimmediate

[Michael McCulloch <mm@pinest.org>]

Not having ever written an ado file, I apologize for the elementary 
question. If I run the do-file editor:

program mike, saving(mike.ado)
...
end

and then type "mike", Stata does return the "..." but the program's 
ado file doesn't end up in ado\personal, even though I first set that 
as the working directory. How do I save it, and then what Stata 
manual should I obtain & course should I take to begin to learn ado 
programming?
Michael







> < >
> Michael said
>
> I like this approach, and it echoes a thread from last week about
> abbreviations. Will those new ado files be saved, or do they need to
> be re-invoked for each Stata session? And, if it needs to be
> re-invoked, could they all be launched by one do-file such as
> "my_abbreviations.do"?
>
>
> Well, if you save them in PERSONAL, they will be saved. You do not 
> need to invoke ado-files; that's what Stata does when you execute 
> the comamnd they define. Each ado-file defines a command, so no, you 
> cannot put more than one in a file. They must be in their own files 
> for this to work. (It is possible to have
>
> ---mike.ado---
> program mike
> ...
> end
> program george
> ....
> end
> program bill
> ...
> end
> ------------------
> but then the george and bill commands are only accessible to program 
> mike, and not elsewhere.
>
> Kit Baum, Boston College Economics and DIW Berlin
> http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
> An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
> http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html
>
>
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