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

["Martin Weiss" <martin.weiss1@gmx.de>]

Well, do not use -saving-, just save the file itself as mike.ado in the 
PERSONAL directory. In terms of training, this is probably what you want:
http://www.stata.com/netcourse/nc151.html

HTH
Martin
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael McCulloch" <mm@pinest.org>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 8:15 PM
Subject: Re: st: re: how to link the help file for a command to its 
immediate



> 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
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> > < >
> > 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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