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

[Michael McCulloch <mm@pinest.org>]

Thanks Martin!

> 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
> _______________________
> ----- 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > < >
> > > 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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