I am glad it wasn't a -separate- problem.
The command -separate- itself has never been abbreviatable. When it was
being written one small issue was whether the intended name leant itself
to minor spelling mistakes. ("separate" was one of those words I had to
check repeatedly in a dictionary.) The decision was that if the user
typed -sep_e_rate-, this is promptly corrected with a little message and
diversion of the command to -separate-, as some users may have
discovered. (That is, there is an undocumented -sep_e_rate- command.) (I
add the _ _ only to stop this mailer continually correcting the
misspelling.) This may still be the only instance in which Stata will
accept, and correct, incorrect spelling. An odd side-effect of this
episode is that my long-continued difficulties over the word have
disappeared.
Nick
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Feiveson, Alan H. (JSC-SK311)
Sorry about the needless anxiety - As Martin suggested, I did have an
old -sep-program lying around that dropped _all. Thanks, Martin
Martin Weiss
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?
Feiveson, Alan H.
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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