st: Re: Separation anxiety (extreme penalty if mistype -separate- command)

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

If that is true, it is pretty serious. So I get "unrecognized command:  sep" 
with my 10.1 Stata. Your error "invalid syntax" makes me think you have a 
command that I do not have. What does -which sep- tell you?

HTH
Martin
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From: "Feiveson, Alan H. (JSC-SK311)" <Alan.H.Feiveson@nasa.gov>
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Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 8:14 PM
Subject: st: Separation anxiety (extreme penalty if mistype -separate- 
command)


> Hello - More than once I have inadvertently typed something like "sep
> var, by(cat)", when I meant to type "separate var,by(cat)" . The result
> is an error, but far worse, Stata wipes out my whole data set when I do
> this, or even if I simply type "sep":
>
>
> . use rad_protein_collapsed_4group_binomial.dta
>
> . des,short
>
> Contains data from rad_protein_collapsed_4group_binomial.dta
>  obs:            24
> vars:            52                          20 Nov 2008 12:42
> size:         4,464 (99.9% of memory free)
> Sorted by:  rad  time  group
>
> . sep
> invalid syntax
> r(198);
>
> . des,short
>
> Contains data
>  obs:             0
> vars:             0
> size:             0 (100.0% of memory free)
> Sorted by:
>
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