st: Re: execute external program from within Stata?

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

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I realize that Stata no longer supports DOS. However the Windows "8.3"  
file-naming convention is that of DOS,  
with .exe, .bin, .hlp, .doc, .xls, .ppt etc. and a good deal of that  
lives on in Stata (ever wonder why someone would come up with a  
command named "wntstmvq"? It is a blessing that DOS support is gone,  
as it allowed getting away from clumsy abbreviations as Stata command  
names. Other operating systems are not limited to using three-letter  
filetypes (or any filetypes at all), and I suppose modern Windows no  
longer requires it either, as it tolerates .sthlp and several other  
non-trigraph file extensions in Stata.


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


On Nov 19, 2008, at 02:33 , Sergiy wrote:

> 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.

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