Dear Kit,
thank you for the explanation. Since Stata does not run in DOS anymore
(why?), Windows should be the only platform left with *.EXE
executables, but at the same time Nick writes that "You don't signal
which platform(s) (operating system(s)) you are using." That's why I
wanted to double check.
Best regards, Sergiy
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:17 PM, Kit Baum <[email protected]> wrote:
> <>
> Sergiy writes
>
> Just curious, which other (than Windows) platforms that Stata runs on,
> have their executable files stored with extension .exe?
>
> None. That file extension is a DOSism. In *nix, an executable is just a
> name. *nix commands are executable files:
>
> bcvpn96:code baum$ ls -l /bin/ls
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 73696 Apr 20 2008 /bin/ls
>
> The -ls- command on a *nix system (in this case Mac OS X) is the equivalent
> of -dir- in DOS. It is an executable file called ls. Not ls.exe, ls.bin,
> etc. -- just ls.
>
> So if I have a Fortran95 program test.f, I give the command
>
> ecstata:~ baum$ g95 -o test test.f
>
> and I end up with an executable named test:
>
> ecstata:~ baum$ ls -l test
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 baum staff 341012 Nov 18 21:14 test
>
> which can be run by mentioning its name:
>
> ecstata:~ baum$ ./test
> 4
> 5
> 6
> 7
> 8
> 9
> 10
>
>
> 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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